Poetry Terms
Literary Devices
Types of Tone
Types of Speech
Miscellaneous
100
Line in a Poem.
What is a Stanza?
100
The use of language to paint a picture of a person, place or thing in the mind of a reader.
What is imagery?
100
View that unrealistically aims for perfection.
What is idealistic?
100
Repetition of a word or phrase at the start of two or more sentences in a row.
What is an anaphora?
100
Something that does not follow what was said before.
What is a Non sequitur?
200
Type of poem that expresses personal feelings of thoughts of a speaker
What is a lyric?
200
A person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more.
What is a symbol?
200
View that deals with things practically rather than theoretically.
What is pragmatic?
200
Type of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in one phrase.
What is an oxymoron?
200
Coherent parts of writing that are related to one main idea.
What is unity?
300
Poem that tells a story.
What is a ballad?
300
Main focus of a piece of literature
What is topic?
300
View that shows a sensible idea that can be achieved or expected.
What is realistic?
300
A comparison between two things to reveal similarities.
What is an analogy?
300
Reason for a piece of literature.
What is purpose?
400
A word, phrase, or line that is repeated several times in a poem for effect.
What is a refrain?
400
A proposed explanation.
What is a hypothesis?
400
Positive view on things.
What is optimistic?
400
Comparison between two things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
400
The conclusion of a story/ when all or most conflicts have been settled.
What is resolution?
500
An eight line poem.
What is an octave?
500
Tells reader the view of the writer on a specific subject.
What is a thesis?
500
Form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a lesson.
What is didactic?
500
Comparison of two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
500
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What is ellipsis?
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