These are words that often suggest ideas and concepts. For example: Freedom, Good, Evil, Success, Love, Nutrition, Ecology, Beautiful, the “isms” and the “ists.”
What is abstract language?
100
A kind of poem that praises a person, animal, place, or thing
What is an ode?
100
What type of poem is this: Originally a composition set to music. A type of poem that refers to an often short poem in which personal feelings, deep feeling, and emotion are expressed with compression with the attention to sound and imagery. Generally speaking, it refers to a poem that focuses on the emotions of the a first-person speaker.
What is a lyric poem?
100
a direct address of an inanimate object, abstract qualities, or a person not living or present
Example: “Beware, O Asparagus, you’ve stalked my last meal.”
What is apostrophe?
200
a poetic device which is used at the end of a line and the beginning of the next line in a poem. It could be employed without traditional punctuation
What is a line break?
200
When we think of BLANK images we think about what we can experience through the senses
What is concrete?
200
Define epistle
What is a poem written in the form of a letter?
200
the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Hyperbole
What is exaggeration for emphasis (the opposite of understatement)
Example: “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.”
300
A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line
What is enjambment?
300
word choice
What is diction?
300
The narrator of the poem tells a story, sometimes in third person, but also in first person and second person.
What is a narrative poem?
300
This is the setting of the poem, what is literally happening. The speaker is writing a note of apology for eating the plums. The speaker is five years old and is wandering around. The speaker is a fisherman who catches a fish and it transforms into a girl that disappears.
What is Dramatic occasion?
300
a situation or phrase that appears to be contradictory but which contains a truth worth considering
Example: “In order to preserve peace, we must prepare for war.”
What is a paradox?
400
The unit of language that divides and structures a poem
What is a line?
400
the dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
400
In writing, the BLANK is the voice that speaks behind the scene. In fact, it is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer’s feelings or situation. It is not necessary that a poet is always the BLANK, because sometimes she may be writing from a different perspective or a fictional experience.
What is the speaker?
400
Concision and precise use of language. Saying much with a few words. A kind of concentrated use of language.
What is compression?
400
an attempt to fuse different senses by describing one in terms of another
Example: the sound of her voice was sweet
What is synesthesia?
500
define syntax
What is word order and sentence structure?
500
the implied or suggested meaning connected with a word
What is connotation?
500
What type of poem is like a play in verse? where the poet takes on the voice of another person, place, animal place or thing.
What is a dramatic poem?
500
Define "refrain"
What is repeated word or series of words in response or counterpoint to the main verse, as in a ballad?
500
a combination of two words that appear to contradict each other
Example: bittersweet