Imagery
What is an image/poetic image? What is imagery?
A concrete, sensory details that engages one or more of the five senses.
What is figurative language?
What is a line/line break?
The place where a poet deliberately ends a line, a distinctive feature of poetry as opposed to prose; also referred to as "verse" or "stitch."
What is "Storm Ending?"
This poem by Jean Toomer describes the world after a storm from the perspective of all five senses.
Touch, taste, hear, see, smell
What is concrete language?
Words that describe particular things, as opposed to words that are abstract.
What is a figure of speech?
Saying one thing, suggesting another; a saying that has significance beyond its literal meaning; to compare one thing to another.
What is a stanza?
A group of lines together, separated from other lines by white space; the poetic equivalent of a paragraph.
What is "Caged Bird?"
This poem, by Maya Angelou, offers an image which can be compared to the experience of individuals enslaved under American slavery.
What is the definition of a symbol?
Use of a person, object, image, word, or event to evoke a range of meaning beyond the thing itself.
What is a family of images/image family?
A collection of images in a single poem that work together to form an intentional group of concrete details, creating a larger picture of significance.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison between unlike things.
What is shape?
Also referred to as "form"; the visible form of a poem on the page.
What is "Dust of Snow?"
This poem, by Robert Frost, describes the speaker's day-changing experience with wildlife.
True or false: An important image in a poem can have multiple, unspecified meanings and suggestions in its use.
True
What is literal?
That which is actually there, concrete.
What is a symbol?
Use of a person, object, image, or event to evoke a range of meaning beyond the thing itself; an important image in a poem/written work that has multiple, unspecified meanings and suggestions.
What is a Caesura?
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry, marked by punctuation.
What is "Red Wheelbarrow?"
This poem appears in several stanzas, each of which has a shape which reflects the poem's primary image.
Justice, Love, Power, Peace
Are these abstract or concrete?
Concrete
What is association?
Leaps the mind makes, beginning with one image; also called stream of consciousness; when one thing makes you think of other things.
What is a word picture?
Another name for a metaphor.
What is the Latin route of Caesura?
From the Latin verb, cadere, meaning "to fall"
What is "In a Station of the Metro?"
This poem describes a busy city scene through the lens of nature.
What is the subject of a poem?