Poetry Basics
A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, often about love or beauty.
What is a sonnet?
The art of using language to persuade or influence.
What is rhetoric?
A comparison that does not use “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds (e.g., “Peter Piper picked…”).
What is an alliteration?
The feeling or atmosphere a poem creates for the reader.
What is mood?
Wrote "Sonnet 18"
Who is William Shakespeare.?
An appeal to emotion.
What is pathos?
Giving human traits to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
A word that imitates a sound (e.g., “buzz,” “crash,” “sizzle”).
What is onomatopoeia?
Something that stands for a deeper meaning (e.g., a heart symbolizes love).
What is symbolism?
The order of the pattern of rhymes at the end of a line of a poem.
What is the rhyme scheme?
An appeal to logic or reason.
What is logos?
An intentional exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
What is hyperbole?
To emphasize an idea, word, or emotion.
What is repetition?
Literal meaning.
What means the exact meaning?
The subject’s beauty will live forever through poetry.
What is the theme of "Sonnet 18"?
An appeal to credibility or ethics.
What is ethos?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art or literature.
What is an allusion?
Techniques poets use to create rhythm, musicality, and emphasis through sound.
What are sound devices?
Figurative meaning.
What means symbolic or imaginative?
The author’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
What is a rhetorical question?
Conveys emotion, creates mood, and helps readers understand the poet’s deeper message or perspective.
How can figurative language reveal a poem’s theme or tone?
The repetition of vowel sounds within words (e.g., “the light of the fire is a sight”).
What is assonance?
Through word choice, imagery, punctuation, and rhythm.
How can a poet show tone without saying it directly?