the general character or attitude of a piece of writing. Ex: Happy, Sad, Excited, ect..
What is tone?
100
the feeling a word evokes
What is connotation?
100
a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is compared to something else without using like or as. example: “All the worlds a stage.”
What is metaphor?
100
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, using like or as.
What is simile?
100
The literal, straightforward meaning of a word. It’s “dictionary definition.” The word “cat” denotes an animal with four legs and a habit of coughing up furballs.
What is denotation?
200
"In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear..." is an example of a poem of _______
Experience
200
"A flower grew out of the ground
A tiny flower from the dirt
A tiny living soul from underground
A baby crawling from the dirt
A little innocence of wild color
A tiny spark of hope..." is an example of a poem of _______
Innocence
200
Something in the world of the senses, including an action, that reveals or is a sign for something else, often abstract or otherworldly.
What is symbol?
200
poetic form invented by the Japanese. It has three sections with five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables respectively. They often describe natural imagery and include a word that reveals the season in which the poem is set.
What is Haiku
200
A statement that contradicts itself and still seems true.
What is paradox?
300
intense, descriptive language in a poem that helps to trigger our senses. Ex: "A small, white sailboat floating swiftly along the calm bay."
Imagery
300
a word or words that resemble in sound what they represent. For example, "Bam! Pow! Kaplow!”
What is onomatopoeia
300
A fancy word for a pause that occurs in the middle of a line of verse.
What is caesura?
300
a poetic style that lacks a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
300
this is when a speaker or character makes a brief and casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event.
Allusion
400
the voice or "persona" of a poem. One should not assume that the poet is automatically this
the speaker
400
A figure of speech composed of a striking exaggeration. For example, “She scorched you with her radiance” or “He was more wronged than Job.
What is hyperbole?
400
A figurative compound word that takes the place of an ordinary noun. It is found frequently in Old Germanic, Norse, and English poetry, including The Seafarer, in which the ocean is called a “whale-path.”
What is kenning?
400
Poetry that aims to use its sounds, textures, rhythms, and rhymes to convey an emotion, instead of relying on the meanings of words.
Abstract Poetry
400
Poetry which forms a structurally original visual shape through the use of reduced language, fragmented letters, symbols, and other typographical variations.
Concrete Poetry
500
A grouping of lines separated from others in a poem. In modern free verse, the stanza, like a prose paragraph, can be used to mark a shift in mood, time, or thought.
What is stanza
500
A comic imitation of another author’s work or characteristic style
What is parody?
500
a line of poetry. (Typically used to refer to poetry that possesses more formal qualities.)
what is verse?
500
A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. William Blake’s “O Rose, thou art sick!” is one example.
What is personification?
500
a literary device which demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables particularly in verse form.