Poem ID
"Those Winter Sundays"
Robert Hayden
The most basic unity of poetry
"Line"
A comparison using “like” or “as"
"Simile"
When a word or image is said more than once, often for emphasis
"Repetition"
Something in the poem that we can visualize
"Imagery"
"what you'd find buried under charles f. kettering sr. high school (detroit, michigan")
francine j. harris
A grouping of lines separated from others in a poem
"Stanza"
A comparison that is made directly without pointing out a similarity by using words such as “like,” “as,” or “than.”
"Metaphor"
Repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a line. These words conventionally share all sounds following the word’s last stressed syllable.
"Rhyme"
Any detail that appeals to the five senses
"Concrete"
"My Papa's Waltz"
Theodore Roethke
A fourteen-line poem
"Sonnet"
A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person
"Personification"
When a line ends with end punctuation
Language that is intangible, representing an idea rather than something in the world (cannot be perceived with the five senses)
"Abstraction"
"Traveling Through the Dark"
William Stafford
A stop or pause in the middle of a line, often marked by punctuation
"But I hung on like death" would be an example of...
"Simile"
The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of successive lines
"Anaphora"
"Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached"
shows concrete OR abstract language?
Concrete
What kind of poet is Sarah Kay?
"Spoken word"/ "slam"
The "turn" at the end of a sonnet, often in the final couplet
"volta"
True or False: A figure of speech is meant to be taken literally.
False.
The continuation of a phrase beyond the end of a line (does NOT have end punctuation at the end of the line)
"Enjambment"
True or False: the speaker is always the same person as the poet
FALSE