Poetry Terms I
Cough, though and through are examples of this.
What is eye rhyme?
The author's attitude toward the character, the subject, or the audience.
What is tone?
The which if you with patient ears attend
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to _____.
What is mend?
“The constantly droning and hypnotic hum of the dryer finally lulled the baby to sleep.”
What is auditory imagery?
A writer’s choice of words.
What is diction?
The repetition of stressed vowel sounds in two or more neighboring words.
What is assonance?
The "narrator" in a poem.
What is the speaker?
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a ______.
What is a crow?
“The salty Pacific air meanders onto a welcoming tongue.”
What is gustatory imagery?
When one line ends without pause (no period, comma, or semicolon) and continues to the next line.
What is enjambment?
A lyric poem that contains exactly 55 syllables in ten lines and vivid imagery.
What is an etheree?
For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone,
Till holy church incorporate two in ______.
What is one?
"The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars / As daylight doth a lamp"
What is visual imagery?
A word's literal, dictionary definition.
What is denotation?
Harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose.
What is cacophony?
I would thou wert so happy by thy stay
To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's _______.
What is away?
"It was a perfume as old as the world; smoky, earthy, rich, and sourbitter"
What is olfactory imagery?
All of the extra feelings and emotions that go along with a word. These feelings and emotions are independent of the concrete definition.
What is connotation?
The systematic study of elements and structures that contribute to the rhythmic nature of language, especially in poetry. The rhythm of speaking.
What is Prosody?
A statement that contradicts itself or makes no logical sense on the surface, but still seems to make sense or express an underlying truth.
What is paradox?
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy _______.
What is looks?
Identify THREE types of imagery in the following:
On an ancient, weathered bench, / Wood rough with the stories of yesteryears, / Each groove and splinter a silent voice, Speaking the language of time’s embrace.
What is visual, tactile, and auditory imagery?
Sentence structure
What is syntax?