Repetition
A poem that follows strict syllable counts.
What is syllabic verse?
The emotional atmosphere or feeling a poem evokes in the reader.
What is mood?
Rhymes that don't rhyme perfectly.
What is slant rhyme?
A short, humorous, or nonsensical five-line poem with a strict AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
A literary movement that followed the industrial revolution. It focused on nature and raw emotions.
What is romanticism?
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or lines.
What is anaphora?
Saying something is way bigger, smaller, worse, or better than it actually is. She scared me to death.
What is hyperbole?
A stanza with three lines.
What is a tercet?
When a nonhuman object is given human characteristics. The limbs scratching at my window. The wind howling or hollering outside.
What is personification?
When a poem does not have any rhyme, a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and adheres to no form.
What is free verse?
A stanza with four lines.
What is a quatrain?
The author's attitude toward the character, the subject, or the audience.
What is tone?
A rhetorical device involving the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses, sentences, or poetic lines
What is epistrophe?
The alarm clock yelled at me to get out of bed.
What is personification?
A French verse form consisting of five tercets (three line stanzas) and a final quatrain (four line stanza), with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas.
What is a villanelle?
A stanza with six lines.
What is a sestet?