Word Choice
Prose
What is any writing that is not poetry?
Personification
What is the giving of human qualities to inanimate objects?
Image/Imagery
What is a word picture; writing that appeals to the senses?
Rhyme
What is the quality of being pleasant to listen to?
Stanza
What is a group of lines in a poem considered as a unit with a space above and below?
Denotation
What is a word's dictionary meaning, independent of other associations the word calls up?
Symbol
What is something that has meaning in itself and also stands for something else?
Alliteration
What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds?
Euphony
What is a mixture of harsh or discordant sounds?
Haiku
What is a three line poem that deals with nature and must follow a certain pattern?
Mood
What is the feeling created in the reader by a poem or story?
Metaphor
What is an implied comparison between two unlike things- not using like or as?
Repetition
What is the use, more than once, of any element of language- a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence?
Consonance
What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?
Concrete Poem
What is a poem whose shape suggests its subject?
Tone
What is the set of associations that occur to people when they hear a word; the emotive meaning of a word?
Allusion
What is a reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, work of art, or the Bible?
Onomatopoeia
What is the use of words that imitate sounds?
Cacophony
What is repetition in two or more words of final consonants in stressed syllables?
Blank Verse
What is poetry written in un- rhymed iambic pentameter?
Connotation
What is the writer's attitude toward his or her audience or subject?
Simile
What is a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as?"
Assonance
What is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables?
Couplet
What is a two line stanza that rhymes?
Ballad
What is a song-like poem that tells a story?