Ideas, Facts, or awareness that an audience already possesses about a topic.
What is prior knowledge?
100
A long, serious narrative poem concerning a heroic figure or group of heroic figures engaged in historical or mythical events that are usually of great significance to a culture.
What is an Epic Poem?
100
A figure of speech comparing two objects that uses "like" or "as"
What is a Simile?
100
A figure of speech in a which a word or short phrase is omitted, but easily understood from the context; also the marks (...) that indicate the omission of a word or phrase.
What is an ellipsis?
200
A fourteen-line lyrics poem, traditionally in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
200
A point of view or opinion on an issue
What is position?
200
Poetry written in dialogue or monologue, using the voice of a character created by the poet and not indentifable with that poet.
What is Dramatic poetry
200
A figure of speech that gives human qualities to inanimate objects or ideas.
What is personification?
200
The moon smiled down at us as we sat by the river is an example of...
What is Personification?
300
The aspect of a speaker's voice that reveals his or her attitude toward the theme or subject of the poem.
What is theme?
300
The location of a narrative in time and space. Can create mood and atmosphere.
What is setting?
300
Poems that are written in a subjectively rich voice, often with a strong emotional element. Often in 1st person.
What is a lyric poem
300
Occurs when a word seems to sound like what the word denotes.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
The technique of placing unexpected combinations of words or ideas side by side.
EX:"My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air..."
What is Juxtaposition?
400
The repetition of vowel sounds, not necessarily excatly rhyming.
What is assonance?
400
A work that exposes to ridicule the shortcomings of individuals, institutions, or society, often to make a political point.
What is a Satire?
400
A lyric poem of exalted emotion celebrating someone or something, often addressed to it's subject.
What is an Ode
400
A figure of speech that refers to a whole entity by identifying only a part of it.
What is synecdoche?
400
A statement that seems absurd or even contradictory but that often expresses a deeper truth.
EX:"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."
What is a paradox?
500
This type of poem is divided into two main parts, an octave (eight lines), with a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA or ABBACDDC, and a sestet (six lines) with a rhyme sceme of CDECDE or CDCDCD
What is a Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet?
500
The misplacement of a person, occurence, custom, or idea in time; also sometimes refers to an individual or thing that is incorrectly placed in time.
What is anachronism?
500
A form of free verse that lacks the formal shape of poetry (regular line lengths, etc.) as well as lacking regular meter or rhyme.
What is a Prose Poem?
500
A figure of speech that refers to something by identifying an object or term closely associated with it.
What is metonymy?
500
The use of similar grammatical structures or word order in two or more sentences, clauses, or phrases to suggest a comparison or contrast between them.
EX: "Before, a joy propose; behind, a dream."