Vocabulary
The voice of the poem, similar to the narrator in fiction
What is the Speaker?
A poem written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always written in iambic pentameter
What is Blank Verse?
a division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit
Her hair is gold
What is a Metaphor?
“I am busy,” said the air.
“Blowing here and blowing there,
Up and down and everywhere.
I am busy,” said the air.
Contains what kind of rhyme
What is Slant Rhyme?
The literal meaning or main definition of a word or thing
What is Denotation?
A poem that is written in three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable structure
What is Haiku?
A series of eight lines that make up one stanza of a poem
What is an Octave?
The smell of cotton candy at a carnival
What is Imagery?
The reference to the Garden of Eden in "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is an example of what figurative language?
What is Allusion?
The chosen language of poetry, the manner of speaking that sets poetry apart from other types of literature
What is Diction?
A short poem often with songlike qualities that express the speaker's personal emotions and feelings
What is a Lyric Poem?
The patterned recurrence within a certain range of regularity of specific language features typically features of sound
What is Rhythm?
A dove standing for peace and purity
What is a Symbol?
Love is tucking you in and kissing you "Goodnight". What figurative language is this an example of?
What is Personification?
Language that is not literal
What is Figurative Language?
An open form of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or musical patters and tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech
What is Free Verse?
The repetition of syllables typically at the end of a stanza or line
What is Rhyme?
The trees are dancing in the wind
What is Personification?
For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.
What figurative language can we identify in the passage?
What is repetition?
The use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning
What is Connotation?
A poem that creates the shape of the idea the poem is trying to express
What is a Concrete Poem?
A type of rhyme with words that have similar but not identical sounds
What is Slant Rhyme?
Her pretty pink pearls
What is Alliteration?
What did we say to each other
that now we are as the deer
Features what figurative language?
What is a Simile?