This concept refers to a word's accepted dictionary definition.
What is denotation?
100
This concept refers to the repetition of consonant sounds, such as "slithering snakes slide by slowly."
What is alliteration?
100
This term refers to a comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Lines of poetry that end with a strong grammatical pause like a comma or period are described by this name.
What are end-stopped lines?
100
When we group lines of poetry into sections within a poem, we give them this name.
What is a stanza?
200
This concept refers to the shared associations and feelings carried by a word.
What is connotation?
200
abab cdcd efef
abcabc
aa bb cc dd ee
These are all examples of what type of pattern?
What is a rhyme scheme?
200
When we assign human qualities to a non-human object like an animal or the landscape, we use this poetic device.
What is personification?
200
Lines of poetry that have no grammatical pause at the end of the line are known as run-on lines or by this term.
What is enjambment?
200
The following lines demonstrate this special kind of stanza:
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
What is a quatrain?
300
This term can refer to what we would see with our eyes in a poem. Or it can refer to things we don't see.
What is an image?
300
This excerpt from "The Shape of Death" features this specific type of rhyme.
like a monstrous brain that bursts
and burns--then turns sickly black spilling
What is internal rhyme?
300
If the roads in "The Road Not Taken" stand in for choices the poet might make in his life, then we would call them this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
300
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
The pauses in the middle of the above line created by the commas are known by this term.
What is a caesura?
300
Two lines of poetry that share an end-rhyme are known by this name.
What is a couplet?
400
Lines from this poem include:
I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house.
What is "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden?
400
This concept refers to the repetition of a specific vowel sound within lines of poetry.
What is assonance?
400
The following lines from "Richard Cory" display this type of figurative language.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
What is metonymy?
400
A line of poetry that consists of ten syllables and an alternating pattern of unstressed and stressed accents fits into this type of meter.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
Shakespeare's favorite form for poetry, this type consists of three quatrains and a couplet that rhyme abab cdcd efef gg.
What is an English sonnet?
500
Lines from this poem include
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
What is "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry?
500
Lines from this poem include:
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
What is "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen?
500
Lines from this poem include:
My fingers touching her side brought me the reason--
her side was still warm; her fawn lay there waiting,
alive, still, never to be born.
What is "Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford?
500
Lines from this poem include:
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
What is "Buffalo Bill's" by E.E. Cummings?
500
Lines from this poem include:
You
Answer to my Prayers, 1
Index You (Unable to), 1
Waiting for Your, 1