Vocabulary
What is the word for "a section of a poem that consists of a line or group of lines"
stanza
Name the form: A traditional Japanese 3-line poem with a 5-7-5 syllable structure, usually about nature.
Haiku
"I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do and its wooden beams were so inviting"?
sarcastic
A comparison using "like" or "as"?
simile
What do we call "the shape, structure, or appearance of a piece of writing"
form
What is the word for "a place where the line ends"
line break
Name the form: Poetry that does not follow any fixed rhyme scheme, meter, or set structure.
Free verse
"When I head the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them"
What does this excerpt show in terms of structure?
anaphora
A comparison without using like or as
metaphor
What is "the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines"?
anaphora
What are the words used to describe "the pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem"?
rhyme scheme
Name the form: A 14-line poem, typically written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme, traditionally about love.
A sonnet
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
ABAB
Describing non- human things as if they had human qualities
Personification
What is "writing that addresses a person or thing that is not present"?
apostrophe
What is the term used to describe a figure of speech in which apparent contradictory terms appear side by side (e.g., "deafening silence").
Oxymoron (An oxymoron is a short phrase combining two contradictory words, while a paradox is a complete statement or situation that appears illogical but reveals a deeper truth)
Name the form: A poem that tells a story (often legendary or tragic), usually written in short four-line stanzas with a simple ABAB or ABCB rhyme scheme.
A ballad
Identify two techniques:
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun..." (Keats)
Alliteration and Personification
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Alliteration
What is metre?
The rhythmic structure of a verse, determined by the pattern and number of stressed and unstressed syllables per line.
What is the word used to describe "a four line stanza"?
quatrain
Name the form: A serious, reflective poem written to mourn the death of someone or reflect on loss.
An elegy
Name three techniques:
"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, / Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge..." (Owen)
Imagery / Alliteration / Onomatopoeia ("coughing")
an extreme exaggeration. Chances are when a person says he or she is so hungry he or she could eat a horse, the person is not really going to eat a horse.
Hyperbole
What is enjambment?
The continuation of a sentence or phrase beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza without terminal punctuation.