Poetry 1
Giving human characteristics to animals or non-living things.
What is a personification?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is like a battlefield.
What is a simile?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is a battlefield.
What is a metaphor?
A single line of poetry.
What is verse?
To me, his grin is like kryptonite: Superman's weakness. This is an example of this type of figuration language.
What is an allusion?
A joke based on the interplay of homophones- words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. It can also play with words that sound similar, but not exactly the same.
What is a pun?
A figure of speech that puts together opposite elements. The combination of these contradicting elements serves to confuse or give the reader a laugh. EXAMPLE: Her room is an organized mess, or controlled chaos, if you will.
What is an oxymoron?
A phrase that expresses a figurative meaning different from the actual meaning of the words used. EXAMPLE: "Kick the bucket" is means "death."
What is an idiom?
A word that sounds like what it means. EXAMPLE: Buzz! Click! Bang! Whoosh!
What is onomatopoeia
A story or narrative in poetic form.
Ballad
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
What is a stanza?
An object or action that means something more than the literal meaning.
What is a symbol?
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the readers.
What is theme?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. EXAMPLE: "From Forth the Fatal loins of these two Foes; A pair of star-crossed lover take their life."
What is alliteration?
The author's specific word choice.
Diction
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
What is free verse?
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
What is enjambment?
The attitude the poem's narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character----serious, humorous, sarcastic, etc.
What is tone?
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the _____ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
What is Rhythm?
The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.
Meter
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
What is an allusion?
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text. EXAMPLE: "Ivan will trY to lIght the fIre."
What is assonance?
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels in a chunk of text. Example: "A worM naMed Maurice took he garden by storM."
What is consonance?
'I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. '
What is a hyperbole?
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Oxymoron