Poetry Terms
This is the feeling or atmosphere a poem creates.
What is mood?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
Language that appeals to the five senses
What is imagery?
In “Hope is the thing with feathers,” hope is compared to this.
What is a bird?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
A poem written to mourn someone’s death.
What is an elegy?
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
The major theme of “The Road Not Taken.”
What is "choices can shape your future?"
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
Giving human qualities to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
What is a metaphor?
Homework is a garbage truck that dumps trash on us every afternoon.
What is a metaphor?
The mood of “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”
What is calm and peaceful?
The narrator or voice speaking in a poem.
What is the speaker?
A poem with no regular rhyme or rhythm pattern.
What is free verse?
"The meeting house windows blank and bare gaze at him with a spectral glare as if they already stood aghast at the bloody work they would look upon."
What is personification?
Words that imitate real sounds (buzz, crash, hiss).
What is onomatopoeia?
“Everyone expects Casey to save the day, but he strikes out” is an example of this.
What is situational irony?
This is the setting of the poem "Paul Revere's Ride."
What is April 18, 1775, in the American colonies?
A long comparison that continues throughout the entire poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
"Fallen cold and dead" appears at the end of each stanza in "O Captain, my Captain!" This is called...
What is repetition?
"The only other sound's the sweep of easy wind and downy flake."
What is imagery?
Robert Frost creates a calm and peaceful mood in his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" through his use of this.
What is imagery?
In "O Captain! My Captain!" the captain symbolizes this, the ship symbolizes this, and the voyage symbolizes this.
What is Abraham Lincoln, the United States, and the Civil War?