Poetry
The Plot Diagram
Vocabulary
Examples
Random
100

Any writing, fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature.

Creative Writing

100

The beginning of the story where the setting is introduced

Exposition

100

__________is a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

Genre

100

What  is the idea or theme of this poem entitled “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer?

“I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast.”

Beauty of nature

100

“There is a thing beneath the stair with a slimy face and oily hair”. This statement implies which element of poetry?

Imagery

200

______ is poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

Free-Verse

200

The changing point in the story

Climax

200

poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems.

Found

200

A woman was sitting in a restaurant when suddenly a waiter spilled some coffee on her dress. She uttered in dismay, “Oh, I’m having a good day!” This statement is an example of…


Irony

200

Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime...is an example of....

Onomatopoeia

300

This element of poetry adds musical quality to the poem which gives the readers reading pleasure.

Rhythm

300

The point in the story where the conflict is beginning to be resolved 

Falling Action

300

Refers to the attitude and mood of the poem.

Tone

300

He is as funny as a barrel of monkeys.This is an example of…

Simile

300

The correct rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean Sonnet: 

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

400

A stanza which comprises of six (6) lines

Sestet

400

The point in the story where the conflict is introduced.

Rising Action 

400

The repetition of the intermediate or final consonant sound.

Consonance

400

What is meant by the idiom “raining cats and dogs”?

It's raining heavy

400

If I wanted to create a poem in the shape of a dog I would write this type of poem.

Concrete

500

“I am first with five 

Then seven in the middle 

Five again to end.”

What type of poem? 

Haiku

500

What is the correct order for the plot diagram 

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

500

one person against another or a person against nature or fate

External Conflict

500

“She sells seashells by the sea-shore.” This tongue twister is an example of

Alliteration

500

A story must have a beginning, a middle and an end, a problem as well as a ______

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