Poetic Features
A distinctive atmosphere or context (how the audience feels)
What is mood?
An extravagant exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
Rhyme of terminal (final) syllables of verses
What is end rhyme?
Style or manner of expression in speaking or writing (how the author feels)
What is tone?
"No more games, I'ma change what you call rage, Tear this roof off like two dogs caged"
What is a simile?
The smallest unit of measurement in the structure of verse
What is a line?
An ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speech
What is rhythm?
Comparing two unlike things, often using the words like or as
What is a simile?
Rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical
What is slant rhyme?
The structural element, plan, or design of a work of art
What is form?
"School bells ring, followed by the office gong, The car-horns start blowing like a rhythm less song"
What is imagery?
A type of poem that follows the pattern of 5-7-5 syllables
What is a haiku?
A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together
What is a stanza?
Words that appeal to a reader’s senses of sight, taste, smell, touch, and sound, as well as internal emotion and feelings
What is imagery?
Recurrence of consonant sounds in words
What is consonance?
Rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern
What is meter?
"My heart is a stereo, it beats for you"
What is a metaphor?
The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
What is alliteration?
A reference to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar
What is an allusion?
A word or phrase that is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them
What is a metaphor?
Rhyme between a word within a line and another, either at the end of the same line or within another line
What is internal rhyme?
Two or more words that correspond in sound
What is rhyme?
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!
What is hyperbole?
Poetry or music that describes the experience of living in a city
What is urban poetry (or music)?
Rhyme in which both the vowel and consonant sounds are identical
What is perfect rhyme?
Something that stands for or suggests something else; it represents something beyond literal meaning
What is symbolism?
Repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants
What is assonance?
Phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across
What is figurative language?
"You shoot me down but I won't fall, I am titanium"
What is symbolism?
"that you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles, and my Daddy said 'Stay away from Juliet'"
What is an allusion?