Definitions 1
The author makes the reader understand through the use of mental pictures, or sensations. It usually appeals to the five senses of sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell.
What is imagery?
The author repeats the same word or phrase to communicate some thing of importance.
What is repetition?
Death, the Cycle of Life, Adversity, Loss of Innocence, Time
What is an abstract idea?
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
What is repetition?
The author gives human characteristics to inanimate objects (usually).
What is personification?
A question that a person does not expect an answer for. It is used to communicate some important information.
What is a rhetorical question?
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
What is personification?
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
What is setting?
Something that we can not see or touch. It is an intangible.
What is an abstract idea?
A paragraph in poetry; the words and lines are separated from the other parts of the poem.
What is a stanza?
Who has seen the wind?
What is a rhetorical question?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
What is imagery?
How a story or poem is organized; for example the use of rhyme, meter and line breaks.
What is structure?
The author's choice of words used to convey specific information to the reader.
What is diction?
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
What is conflict?
Old John, with white hair
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk,
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say.
‘Such, such were the joys.
When we all girls & boys,
In our youth-time were seen,
On the Ecchoing.
What is rhyme? What is structure?
The feeling the authors words evoke in the reader.
What is mood?
The attitude or perspective the author has regarding characters or events.
What is tone?
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
What is tone?
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring.
To the bells’ cheerful sound.
What is diction? (Why does the author choose these words?)