Structure
When the line isn't end stopped and flows onto the next line or stanza.
What is enjambement?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as, than, or resembles.
What is a simile?
When the word is the same as the sound which it is describing.
What is onomatopoeia?
Two lines at the end of a poem that rhymes. These two lines are usually at the end of a sonnet.
What is a couplet?
A japanese form of poetry that has only three lines. Line one has five syllables. Line two has seven syllables. Line three has five syllables.
What is haiku?
Rhyme at the end of lines.
What is end rhyme?
A comparison of two unlike things using being verbs. The cat is a green frog.
What is metaphor?
When two contrasting ideas/words are right next door to each other.
What is a oxymoron?
The way that lines are grouped in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The first famous female poet who preferred to be alone and not associate with anyone.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Two lines that rhyme one after the other at the end.
What are rhyming couplets?
Saying something is bigger, smaller, worse, or better than it actually is. She scared me to death.
What is exaggeration or hyperbole?
Repetition of the 'S' sound at the beginning, middle or end of the word.
What is sibilance?
Repeating words, lines, or phrases.
What is repetition?
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
What is an elegy?
When a poem does has a full stop or punctuation indicating a long pause in the middle of a line.
What is caesura?
This is a comparison of two unlike things using being verbs that goes on for a stanza or even the entire poem.
What is extended metaphor?
Repetition of the vowel sound anywhere in the word.
What is assonance?
A 14 line one stanza poem, often split into an Octave/Octet and Sestet.
What is a sonnet?
Repetition of the same beginning sound in words. Suzy sold seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
Ten syllables in a line -five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
The sun shivered in the sky. Giving inanimate objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
Repetition of a consonant sound in the beginning, middle or end of words.
What is consonance?
The author's attitude toward the character, the subject, or the audience.
What is tone?
Putting together/or near each other contrasting ideas.
What is juxtapostion?