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Exaggeration for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme. Sometimes with an octave and sestet. Other times with three quatrains and a couplet.
What is a sonnet?
Yehuda Amichai is the speaker in the poems regarding the conflict that originated in his hometown of Wurzburg located in:
What is Germany?
Use of language that sounds like the thing or action it describes. [buzz, meow, toot]
What is onomatopoeia?
What is imagery?
The difference between what is expected and reality. Types: verbal, situational, and dramatic.
What is irony?
A poem written to express grief, sadness, or loss.
What is an elegy?
Yehuda Amichai was also known as:
Who was Ludwig Pfeuffer?
Repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry.
What is alliteration?
A reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem.
What is an allusion?
Comparison without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Japanese poem composed of three lines with seventeen syllables, written in 5/7/5 syllable count focuses on images from nature.
What is Haiku?
Yehuda Amichai writes Open Closed Open as his "magnum opus" and repeatedly refers to this object throughout.
What is the Amen Stone?
Pattern of rhymed words. ex: ABAB CBCB
What is rhyme scheme?
The poet's attitude toward the subject, speaker, or audience of a poem.
What is tone?
A phrase that appears to be contradictory but contains some measure of truth.
What is paradox?
What is a narrative poem?
Yehuda Amichai writes "A Pace Like That" about his desire to make his life go:
What is slower?
Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
What is assonance?
The continuation of a sentence or clause across one poetic line break.
What is enjambment?
Comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
A long poem with lofty vocabulary about a hero in a supernatural setting.
What is an epic?
Yehuda Amichai expresses the theme of survivor's guilt in some of his poetry regarding the subject of:
What is the Holocaust?
Prose has sentences and paragraphs while poetry has:
What are lines and stanzas?
Figure of speech in which things are endowed with human qualities.
What is personification?