Types of Poems
Types of Conflict
Visual Terms
Poetry Terms
Story Terms
100
a narrative poem or song that tells a popular story, often of physical courage or love
What is a ballad poem?
100
An emotional struggle inside a person?
What is internal conflict?
100
The general idea or insight about a message that an artist wishes to express
What is the main message?
100
A literary device in which human qualities or actions are attributed to non-human beings or objects
What is personification?
100
A technique for providing clues about events that may happen later in the story
What is foreshadowing?
200
a seventeen-syllable poem set out in three lines in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, often captures a moment in nature
What is a haiku poem?
200
A struggle against the environment/nature or society
What is external conflict?
200
Part of a photograph, drawing or painting that is the main area of interest
What is a focal point?
200
The sounds of a word resembling its meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A technique for presenting something that happened earlier that helps explain somethig about the current situation
What is a flashback?
300
a long, narrative poem dealing with the actions of legendary men and women or the history of nations, often presented in a good ceremonious style
What is an epic poem?
300
A struggle with another person
What is interpersonal conflict?
300
The relative size of objects within visual; large objects attract the viewer's attention first
What is scale?
300
A figure of speech in which contradictory words are placed together for the purpose of expressing deep feelings, or to emphasize a point
What is an oxymoron?
300
The main character in a literary work
What is the protagonist?
400
a poem whose shape or visual appearance contributes to its meaning
What is a concrete poem?
400
The central conflict that moves the plot forward
What is main conflict?
400
refers to dark and light or other differences used to create strong feelings in a visual
What is contrast?
400
An exaggerated statement used not to deceive, but for humorous or dramatic effect
What is a Hyperbole?
400
The actual words that characters speak ; authors use dialogue skillfully in the short story to portray character and to dramatize conflict
What is dialogue?
500
a fourteen line poem that usually follows a set rhyme scheme and rhythm
What is a sonnet poem?
500
The secondary conflict that does not influence the plot a great deal
What is minor conflict?
500
The arrangement of visual elements within a picture; the way in which the parts of an artistic work are brought together into a visually satisfying whole
What is composition?
500
The close repetition of the same vowel sounds between different consonants
What is assonance?
500
The major character in a narrative or drama that works against the hero or protagonist
What is an antagonist?