Poetry Terms
This is the end of a line, where the poet hits enter.
What is a line break?
This figurative language uses the words like or as to compare two different things.
What is a simile?
What is symbolism?
St. Lucy's is an allegory for this political history.
What is Native American boarding schools?
What a group of lines in a poem are called.
What is a stanza?
This is when the author uses sensory details.
What is imagery or a concrete image?
The message or main idea of a text.
What is a theme?
The wolf girls in St. Lucy's symbolize this group.
What are Native American boarding school students?
The author's attitude toward the subject of the poem.
What is tone?
This figurative language gives human like qualities to a nonhuman subject.
What is personification?
When an author tells the reader a character's traits.
What is direct characterization?
The school "St. Lucy's Home" symbolizes this.
What were Native American boarding schools?
The emotions a reader feels created by a text.
What is a text's mood?
This is when the author repeats a consonant sound at the beginning of words.
When an author reveals a character's traits through their speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, or looks.
What is indirect characterization?
What the nuns did to the girls; the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group
What is assimilation?
The author's choice of words.
This is when an author gives an exaggeration that is impossible.
What is a hyperbole?
A story that uses symbolism to create hidden political or moral meaning; the story represents something else.
What is an allegory?
The muzzle the nuns put on Mirabella symbolizes this idea.