Core Vocabulary
A person who has been in the military
What is a veteran?
A four line stanza
What is a quatrain?
In the evening he sat by our beds
weaving folktales like vivid little scarves.
What is a simile?
Showing similarities between two or more things
What is comparing?
Immense, entirely itself,
it wore that yard like a
-dress.
What is A/B.
Stretched tightly
What is taut?
When the same form is repeated in a series of lines or stanzas
What is parallel structure?
He is Gauguin, he is Coyote, he is who he is, traveling the known and unknown places.
What is an allusion?
An image or visualization of something not present
What is an allusion?
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
What is A/B/A/C
To understand or see
What is to perceive?
Writing the addresses a person or thing that is not present
What is an apostrophe?
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, ...
What is personification?
Crumb and home are examples of this poetic element.
What is slant rhyme?
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
What is A/B/A/B?
A splash
What is plash?
The blank space that divides two stanzas from each other
What is a stanza break?
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
What is a simile?
Not directly stated
What is implied?
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.
What is A/B/C/B?
Nearby or easy to find
What is convenient?
A poetic form with 19 lines and a set pattern of repeating lines and rhyming words
What is a villanelle?
The snow is a white blanket.
What is a metaphor?
Changes in rhyme scheme typically reveal something about the poem's ______________.
What is meaning?
There once was a runner named Dwight
Who could speed even faster than light.
He set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night.
What is A/A/B/B/A?