Poetry Terms
Made up of all the tools a poet uses to create a special effect or feeling
What is figurative language?
An implied comparison between two unlike things that have something important in common
A device where the speaker hints at a person, place, or thing in literature, history, or art
What is an allusion?
Words that imitate the sound they are
What is onomatopoeia?
A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines. It usually develops one idea
What is a stanza?
The feelings created in the reader by a poem
What is mood?
Giving human characteristics to something non-human
What is personification?
When the author chooses nouns, adjectives, or verbs that paint a strong mental image and often having layers of meaning
What is vivid word choice?
The repetition of internal vowel sounds
What is assonance?
The number of words in a line
What is line length?
Language that appeals to any or all of the five senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight
What is imagery?
A metaphor that continues for several stanzas or the length of a poem
What is an extended metaphor?
When the speaker talks directly to an absent person, thing, or idea, living or not living, as if it were capable of understanding
What is an apostrophe?
The repetition of ending (of the word or stressed syllable) consonant sound
What is consonance?
Went up the hill”
-Mother Goose Medley
What is rhyme scheme?
The voice of the poem
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”
-Muhammad Ali
What is a simile?
Love is like a soft cushion to sleep on while Hate is a stone
What is juxtaposition?
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past“
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
What is alliteration?
What is poetic inversion?
The attitude the writer takes toward the reader or subject of the poem
What is tone?
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players”
-Shakespeare, As You Like It (Act II, Scene VII)
What is a metaphor?
Hamlet talking to Yorick‘s skull about death and the meaninglessness of life (in Hamlet)
What is an apostrophe?
“Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
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”Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
- Edgar Allen Poe, “The Raven”
What is repetition?
“Green were my jealous eyes”
-Unknown
What is poetic inversion?