Literary Terms
Poetry Strategies
100

A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word.

What is a pun?

100

The O in SOAPStone.

What is occasion?

200

A word imitating the sound it denotes.

What is an onomatopoeia?

200

The final T in TP-PASTT.

What is theme?

300

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.

What is a ballad?

300

Three different strategies for reading poetry.

What are SIFTING, SOAPStone, SIC, Line by Line, and TP-PASTT? (any three)

400

A spoken or written account of events.

What is a narrative?

400

The G in SIFTING.

What is genre?

500

An act of speaking thoughts aloud when by oneself, regardless of people listening.

What is a soliloquy?

500

The three Ts in SIFTING.

What are tone, theme, and turning points?