Poetry Terms
The sound of a word that resembles its meaning, e.g., buzz, hiss, etc.
What is Onomatopoeia?
In literature and writing this refers to the author's attitude toward the subject or audience.
What is tone?
This narrative poem or song tells a famous story, often of physical courage or love.
What is a ballad?
This text discussed several settings and what bread looked like or how much bread was available at each setting.
What is Bread?
The houses of Hogwarts are?
What are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw?
This is the same sound occurring in different words.
What is rhyme?
This theme relates to extreme sadness, hopelessness, or despair that permeates a literary work or a particular aspect.
What is despondent?
These poems have no established pattern
What is free verse?
This text analyzed a metamorphosis a young bank teller went through.
What is "The Red Fox Fur Coat"?
What are Charms, Quidditch, Herbology, and Transfiguration?
This is words that appeal to the reader’s senses and enable us to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch what the writer is describing.
What is imagery?
This tone can be described as playful, naughty, and slightly disobedient.
What is mischievous?
A fourteen-line poem that usually follows a set rhyme scheme and rhythm. We will study these when we study Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
What is a sonnet?
This text illuminated the reader on the unexpected actions of a group of boys.
What is "What Happened During the Ice Storm?"
This is how many books you are expected to have read this whole year
35
The overall feeling (e.g., light and happy or dark and brooding) created by an author’s choice of words
What is mood?
This tone is characterized by intense fear, dread, and impending danger.
What is terrified?
This is a poem that expresses intense personal thoughts? Hint: Musicians write these.
What is a lyric?
This text illustrated themes of death and war and the challenges of writing an unlikeable character.
What is "The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?
This is how many books you should have read since the beginning of this year
At least 3
This is something concrete, such as a person, object, image, word, or event, that represents something abstract, such as a feeling, emotion, idea, or concept; e.g., the color red can symbolize love or anger, or the color black can represent danger or death, etc.
What is symbolism?
This tone is deep respect, admiration, and awe or devotion, conveying a solemn and heartfelt attitude of honor and reverence toward a subject, often of a spiritual or sacred nature.
What is reverent?
This type of lyric poem (see below) expresses sadness for someone who has died.
What is an elegy?
This is the first line to the text...
What is "The First Day"?
The four things you are expected to bring every day to pre-AP English 1?
What are your computer, your notebook, a book, and a pencil?