Poetry Terms
A name for a poem paragraph
stanza
Simile
The most intense part of a story
Climax
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers
Alliteration
How many unique parts are there to an academic paragraph?
4: introduction, evidence, commentary, conclusion
A change in a poem's attitude, tone, or theme
shift
When an author paints a picture with words: typically using the 5 senses
Imagery
Events leading up to the climax
Rising action
The car remembered it's owner fondly
Personification
What 3 things should be in a theme statement?
Author's name, title of the work, the theme
The structure of a poem that does not have a minimum line requirement or a specific rhyme scheme
Free Verse
Giving a non-human thing human characteristics
Personification
The end of a story
Resolution
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse
Hyperbole
Restate the questions in our answer
When the end of lines in a poem rhyme with each other in a pattern
Rhyme Scheme
A comparison NOT using like or as
Metaphor
Events after the most intense part of the story
Falling action
The forest was hushed, resounding with echoes of the tree's stoic silence
Imagery
What does evidence look like in a formal paragraph?
Word for word from the text in quotations
The message that the author is attempting to show the reader
A theme
The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words
Alliteration
Exposition
What do you call the wrong pasta? An impasta!
Pun
A proper citation for a quote
(Author's last name, pg./ln #)