Terms
Terms
Terms
Terms
Terms
100
a poem meant to instruct or to teach
What is didactic?
100
compact paradox
What is oxymoron?
100
Two birds sitting beside each other.
What is paradox?
100
a two line stanza, usually rhymed
What is couplet?
100
a three-line stanza
What is tercet?
200
the poet's attitude towards the subject matter of the poem
What is tone?
200
poetry unrhymed and without regular meter
What is free verse?
200
an object, person, or action representing more than the literal meaning
What is symbol?
200
a poem expressing the poet's mood or emotion
What is lyric?
200
a direct comparison between two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
300
a synonym for cacophony
What is dissonance?
300
a 14 line poem divided into an octave and a sestet
What is an Italian sonnet?
300
a elaborate lyric poem dealing seriously with dignified themes.
What is an ode?
300
the repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
300
a four line stanza, rhymed or unrhymed
What is a quatrain?
400
the other name for understatement
What is litotes?
400
the speaker of the poem who may or may not be the poet
What is persona?
400
a French verse form of 19 lines
What is villanelle?
400
is the name of the lady an Italian poet wrote over 300 poems to
Who is Laura?
400
is the name of the poet who had a scandalous past and was kicked out of England
Who is Percy Shelley?
500
a poem glorifying and dealing with rural life and nature
What is pastoral?
500
a pause in a poetric line
What is caesura?
500
wrote about his son becoming a theif
Who is Raymond Shuster?
500
is the other name for an Italian sonnet
What is petrarchan?
500
another name for "poet" Shakespeare is often called this
What is a bard?
M
e
n
u