Types of Poems
What type of poem was "Ode to a Grecian Urn"?
Ode
a repeated word, line, or phrase in a poem that appears at regular intervals to create rhythm and emphasis
refrain
Extended metaphor
Iambic
Rhyme that is not exact
Dramatic Monologue
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person.
Apostrophe
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Epitaph (or Irony)
Stressed, unstressed
Trochaic
analyzing the metrical patterns in a poem by organizing likes into stressed and unstressed syllables.
scansion
What type of poem was "Ozymandias"?
Sonnet
A broad term for making a comparison between two different things that are similar in some way.
Analogy
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
Chiasmus
Stressed, stressed
Spondaic
Rhyme within a line
internal rhyme
What type of peom has five tercets, ends with a quatrain, and uses refrain?
Villanelle
Language that portrays ideas, concepts, or emotions in the form of imagery.
Abstract imagery.
The hand in "the hand that mocked them" was an example of what in Ozymandias"?
Synecdoche
Unstressed, unstressed
Pyrrhic
unrhymed lines without a particular rhythem
free verse
short, subjective poem that shows emotions of speaker
lyric poem
the grammatical structure and idea are complete at the end of the line.
end-stopped line
The "colossal Wreck" in "Ozymandias" was an example of what?
Metonymy
Unstressed, unstressed, stressed
Anapestic
A pair of lines, written in iambic pentameter, that rhyme.
heroic couplet