Poetry Terms
the narrative voice of the poem.
What is the speaker?
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
the main idea or most important point in a sentence. Its position may be varied for effect.
What is climax?
ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach.
What is satirical?
a basic comparison of two generally unlike things that produced insight.
What is metaphor?
What are poem paragraphs called?
What is stanza?
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
the rhythm or "music" of a sentence that come through parallel elements and repetition.
What is cadence?
instructive; author attempts to educate or instruct the reader.
What is didactic?
an elaborate simile that compares an ordinary event or situation with the more complex idea in the text that is often recognized by the use of "just as, so then."
What is an epic or Homeric simile?
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
the pace or speed of a sentence (or group of sentences) that comes through a variety of means, such as length of words, number of words, omission of words or punctuation, etc.
What is narrative pace?
serious in purpose and convention (no slang, contractions; no idioms).
What is formal?
Giving an nonhuman object human qualities
What is personification?
a combination of sounds that produces a harsh or discordant effect.
cacophony
a clever little story; a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.
What is an anecdote?
literature refers to the way in which words and sentences are placed together.
What is syntax?
What is persuasive writing?
Crash went the window is an example of what?
What is an onomatopoeia?
A sonnet has ___ line(s).
What is 14 lines?
a moment of insight, spiritual or personal; a character's sudden revelation about life or his or her own circumstances.
What is epiphany?
this type of sentence construction (or even paragraph construction) contains balanced grammatical structures that provide similar rhetorical value.
What is parallel sentence or parallel structure?
What is narrative writing?
a short quotation or verse that precedes a poem (or any text) to set the tone, provide a setting, or give other context for the poem.
What is an epigram?