Building Blocks
Building Blocks
Poetry Terms
Poetry Terms
Terms
100
This takes place in a character's mind.
What is internal conflict?
100
This is a feeling of anxious curosity.
What is suspense?
100
This occurrs at the end of the lines.
What is end rhymes?
100
This occurrs within the lines.
What is internal rhymes?
100
The time and place in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
200
Where the loose end of the story are tied up & the story is closed.
What is resolution?
200
Who are the characters and what do they want.
What is basic situation?
200
This is a pattern of rhymes.
What is rhyme scheme?
200
Refers to the rise and all of our voices as we use language.
What is rhythm?
200
The vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
300
This is what happens in a story.
What is plot?
300
This is a struggle between opposing chracters and opposing forces.
What is conflict?
300
The repetition of the sound of a stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables.
What is rhyme?
300
This has a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
300
The use of clues to hint at events that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The story's most emotional or susupectful moment.
What is climax?
400
When one or more of the characters act to resolve the conflict __________ happens.
What is complication?
400
The use of words with sounds that echo their echo their sense.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
This does not have a regular pattern of stressed syllables and unstressed syllables.
What is Free Verse?
400
A comparison in which one thing is said to be another thing not using like or as.
What is metaphor?
500
When a character struggles with another person, with a group of people, or with a force of nature.
What is external conflict?
500
A comparison between two unlike things, using the word like or as.
What is simile?
500
The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
500
A person, place, or thing that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond it as well.
What is symbol?
500
The idea about life revealed in a piece of literature.
What is theme?
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