Types of Poetry
A serious poem that tells a story; this is at length a narrative piece with heroic events and deeds
What is an Epic.
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Note the repetition of the d sound in these lines: The dare devil dove into the deep sea.
What is alliteration?
Uses of words for their auditory effect, can convey meaning and mood or unify a work.
What is sound devices?
The author’s/narrator's attitude towards a text.
What is tone?
A poem that expresses strong feelings or thoughts, has a musical quality, and deals with intense emotions surrounding events like death, love, or loss.
What is a lyric poem?
A figure of speech in which a thing – an idea or an animal – is given human attributes.
What is personification?
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
What is a meter?
Makes use of particular words that create visual representation of ideas in our minds.
What is imagery?
A poem that tells a story, usually (but not always) in four-line stanzas called quatrains.
What is a ballad?
A pause that divides the line, with each part having two stresses
What is caesura?
The occurrence of similar or identical sounds at the end of two or more words, such as suite, heat, and complete.
The character or voice that tells the events to the reader.
What is speaker/narrator
A type of poem written by William Shakespeare.
What is a sonnet?
A metaphorical compound words or phrases substituted for simple noun.
What is kennings?
Main idea or central insight into life that exists in the story. It may occur as a moral, a lesson, a human value, quality or truth.
What is theme?
How the reader feels in response to the text (emotional effect of audience)
What is mood?
Depicting a person in clear images that reveal his physical appearance, his actions, his thoughts, his speech, and his attitudes towards his life and those around him
What is characterization?
Writer’s word choice
What is diction?