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A type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged in specific ways to create an effect.
What is poetry?
It refers to the way a poem is laid out on the page.
What is a form in poetry?
It is the use of words whose sounds echo their meanings.
What is onomatopoeia?
When the rhythm is regular and repeats throughout the poem and created by arranging words to form patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is a meter?
A comparison of two things using the words is and are.
What is a metaphor?
It must always have 14 lines and use a particular pattern of rhyme.
What is a sonnet?
It is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more nearby words.
What is alliteration?
A language that helps a reader recreate, in his or her own mind, what the writer is describing.
What is imagery?
A phrase that starts with the same sounds.
What is alliteration?
A traditional poem has this pattern of rhyme, that repeats across the different stanzas.
What is a rhyming scheme?
A phrase with deeper meaning than the literal understanding.
What is an idiom?
These are two more ways of repeating sounds to achieve a certain effect. __________ is the repetition of vowel sounds in words, such as in stone and slow. _________ the repetition of consonant sounds either within or at the ends of words, as in the phrase wide muddy field.
What is assonance and consonance?
They are groups of lines. in which has the place where a line ends called a line break.
What is stanza?
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
It is the musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
It is arranged according to rules about lines, stanzas, rhyme, and rhythm.
What is a traditional poem?
Their lines do not rhyme in any regular way, and might not even be similar lengths.
What is free verse poetry?
Includes ballads, limericks and sonnets.
What are the kinds of a traditional poem?
A syllable that is emphasized. For example, in the word student the syllable stu is stressed, while dent is unstressed.
What is a stressed syllable?
These are two more ways of repeating sounds to achieve a certain effect. __________ is the repetition of vowel sounds in words, such as in stone and slow. _________ the repetition of consonant sounds either within or at the ends of words, as in the phrase wide muddy field.
What is assonance and consonance?