Tone/Mood
Poetry Terms
Poetry in Motion
Vocab
100

What is mood? 

The feeling expressed to the reader when reading

100

What is a stanza?

A group of lines formed to create the recurring meter. Building block of the poem - (like a paragraph)

100

Identify the rhyme scheme in this poem: 

Once upon a star

There was something I wished for

But still, I wanted something more

For my 16th, I got my dream car

ABBA

100
What is the definition of precise?

(Adj) being exactly that and neither more nor less.

200

What is tone? 

The author's attitude towards a subject

200

What is a couplet? 

Two lines of verse

200

Is the following poem free verse or traditional? 

The hallway hums with echoes—
laughter, footsteps,
a locker door slamming like punctuation.
I breathe in the scent of pencil shavings and rain,
and wonder if growing up always sounds this loud.

200

Fill in the blank with a vocabulary word...

The student asked for a bandaid to ___________ their pain. 

Alleviate

300

What is the mood of this couplet? 

The moonlit waves kiss shores of white,
Then fade away into the night.

Peaceful; Calm
300

What is imagery?

Descriptive words that appeal to the reader's senses.

300

In which line does a shift happen in the following poem:

Beneath the gray and heavy sky,
The world felt hushed, the colors shy.
Then sunlight cracked the clouds apart—
A sudden warmth bloomed in my heart;
The day began again, alive.

Line 3

300
Which vocabulary word best fits the following definition? 


To violently attack; assault

A. Seldom       B.Obliterate   C. Assail     D.Audacity

C. Assail

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