The use of words that imitate the sound that the poet is trying to describe.
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
The explicit comparison of two thing by employing either 'as' or 'like'
What is a Simile?
100
Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern or expectation.
What is Free Verse?
100
Rhyming stanzas each made up of two lines.
What is a couplet?
100
The people for whom a poem is written.
What is Audience?
200
The effect created when words share the same stressed consonant sounds but where the vowels differ.
What is Consonance?
200
An implicit comparison between two things.
What is a Metaphor?
200
A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure.
What is an Epic?
200
The premeasured patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
What is Meter?
200
The attitude of the speaker of poet toward the subject of the poem.
What is Tone?
300
The effect created when words with the same initial letter (usually consonants) are used in close proximity
What is Alliteration?
300
Words or images that signify more than they literally represent.
What is a Symbol?
300
A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.
What is Lyric?
300
Words that look as though they should rhyme but do not.
What is Sight Rhyme?
300
The impression of a personality behind a piece of writing.
What is Voice?
400
The effect created when words with the same vowel sound are used in close proximity - but where the consonants in these words are different.
What is Assonance?
400
Figure of speech whereby inanimate objects or abstractions are given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
400
Ballads, epics, and lays are different kinds of this poem.
What is Narrative?
400
The naturally occurring patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in a passage of poetry.
What is Rhythm?
400
Poems can have many of these: sometimes unclear or hidden; they can be simple or profound and are very diverse.
What is the Subject?
500
The deliberate use of inharmonious syllables/words/phrases in order to create a harsh-toned effect.
What is Dissonance?
500
A great exaggeration used to emphasize a point, and is used for expressive or comic effect.
What is Hyperbole?
500
Lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet. The Italian version of these are divided into two quatrains and a six-line sestet.
What is the Sonnet?
500
The sonnet is written in this rhythmic form.
What is Iambic Pentameter
500
Authors intentions behind the writing of a poem. This could be expressive, informative, or stylistic.