Poetic Structure
Division of lines in a poem
What is a Stanza?
A subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation
What is Theme?
A statement that represents something as smaller or less intense, or less important than it really is
What is an Understatement?
Where the story takes place
What is Setting?
A fake name
What is a Pseudonym?
A group of three lines
What is a Tercet?
The art or practice of using symbols especially by investing things with a symbolic meaning
What is Symbolism?
The arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or a poem
What is Rhyme Scheme?
A common or overused theme or device
What is a Trope?
Representing a non human thing as human
What is Personification?
A metrical foot of one long syllable followed by a short syllable
What is a Trochee?
The implicit or metaphorical meaning
What is Subtext?
The continuous unedited chronological flow of conscious experience through the mind
What is Stream of Consciousness?
The preface or introduction to a literary work
What is a Prologue?
Something having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
What is a Paradox?
A rhetorical shift that marks the change of a thought or argument in a poem
What is Volta?
A literary movement characterized by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions
What is Romanticism?
Form of a monologue or gives the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections
What is a Soliloquy?
The part in a literary work where the story builds to a climax
What is Rising Action?
A short descriptive literary sketch: a brief incident or scene
What is a Vignette?
Verse form consisting typically of five tercets and a quatrain in which the first and third lines of the opening tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercets and together as the last two lines of the quatrain
What is a Villanelle?
Depicting realism in art
What is Verisimilitude?
A portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation
What is Rhapsody?
The way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form constituents
What is Syntax?
A subjective sensation or image of a sense other than the one being stimulated
What is Synesthesia?