Unit 4 Vocab
Unit 4 Vocab
Unit 4 Vocab
Unit 4 Vocab
Unit 4 Vocab
100
poetry
What is a short piece of literature that often has a pattern of rhythm and rhyme and paints powerful or beautiful ideas with words?
100
Simile
What is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike objects using the word like or as?
100
Imagery
What is the use of word pictures that appeal ti the five senses?
100
Figurative Language
What is writing or speech not meant to be understood exactley as it is writtin; writers use figurative language to express ideas in imaginative ways?
100
Iambic Pentameter
What is a five two-beat sound in a line of poetry where the second syllable is stressed in each pattern?
200
Free Verse
What is a poetry that does not have a set rhyming pattern or line length; it uses real speech patterns for the rhythms of sound?
200
Theme
What is the main idea of a literary work?
200
Setting
What is the time and place in a story?
200
Onomatopoeia
What is the use of words that sound like their meaning?
200
Personification
What is giving human characteristics to a nonhuman object?
300
Rhyme
What is words with the same vowel and ending sounds?
300
Lyric Poem
What is a poem that has rhythm and expresses one strong emotion?
300
Surrealism
What is a writing style that has a dreamlike quality and odd, unexpected images?
300
Villanelle
What is a 19-line poem with several repeating rhymes?
300
Symbolism
What is the use of a person, place, or thing to represent something larger than itself?
400
Rhythm
What is a pattern created by the stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry?
400
Elegy
What is a poem that mourns someone's death?
400
Realism
What is a writing style that looks at ordinary people and objects?
400
Rhyme Scheme
What is a pattern of end rhymes in a poem?
400
Metaphor
What is a figure of speech that says one thing is another; it makes a comparison, but no words of comparison (like or as) are used.
500
symbol
What is a person, place, thing, or event that stands for something else?
500
Narrator
What is the teller of a story?
500
Ode
What is a poem in praise of someone or something?
500
Stanza
What is a group of lines that form a unit in a poem and often have the same rhythm and rhyme?
500
dramatic Monologue
What is a poem in which a character talks to the reader?
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