Thoughts and feelings of a single speaker; usually very musical
What is lyric?
100
Helps poet add natural pauses by breaking up a Poem into many individual parts
What is line?
100
Repetion of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
100
Uses like or as to compare two unlike things
What is simile
100
Structure is the way a poem is organized
What is structure
200
Tells a story in verse; often has characters, setting, and plot
What is narrative?
200
Arrangement of groups of lines to create an appearance on the page or to organize thoughts each is set off from the next by a blank line below it
What is stanza?
200
Repetion of similar vowel Sounds in stressed syllables that end in different consonant sounds
What is assonance?
200
Describes one thing as if it were something else
What is metaphor?
200
Sound devices create musical effect that appeal to the ear poets use these techniques to achieve specific purposes and to convey the mood and meaning
What is sound devices?
300
A song like poem that tells a story, often dealing with adventure or romance
What is ballad?
300
Pattern of ryhme it is described with letters that represent different sounds ; aabb describes a stanza whose first two and last two lines rhyme
What is rhyme scheme?
300
Repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds in stressed syllables
What is consonance?
300
A metaphor in which the comparison is devolveloped I several ways sometimes (but not always) throughtout an entire Poem
What is extended metaphor?
300
Writing that is imaginative and not meant to be taken literally
What is figurative language?
400
Defined by its lack of stict structure. It does not have to rhymenor have regular meter; lines do not have to be a spec length there may be no specific stanza pattern
What is free verse?
400
Use of words that imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Gives human qualities to something that is not human
What is personification?
400
Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses - sight,sound,smell,taste and touch
What is sensory language?
500
Poem in which the words are arranged on the page to form a shape that suggests the topic or ideas in the Poem
What is concrete?
500
The way a poem can be organized. *structure
Line, stanza and rhyme scheme are?
500
Repetition of sounds at the ends of words
What is ryhme
500
Like or as
Ex: the icy water felt like stinging bees
A simile contains the the words?
500
A form of Poetry is usually defined by purpose, characteristics and structure