Poetry Terms
This is a "paragraph" in poetry.
What is a stanza?
The first sentence of an essay.
What is a hook?
The feeling the reader gets from the story.
What is the mood?
Use this to separate items in a series.
What is a comma?
A person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
The "beat" or "pulse" in poetry.
What is rhythm or meter?
The minimum number of paragraphs expected in an expository (analytical) essay.
What is five?
The author's central message or lesson.
What is theme?
This cannot be used by itself to separate two sentences.
What is a comma?
A describing word.
What is an adjective?
The pattern of sounds at the end of a line.
What is rhyme scheme?
This is what TAG stands for.
What is Title, Author, and Genre?
The central "problem" of the story?
What is conflict?
This goes after the parenthetic citation (Salinger 145) in a quotation.
What is a period?
A word that modifies a verb.
What is an adverb?
Poem that does not follow any patterns.
What is free verse?
This is what the first sentence of each body paragraph is called.
What is topic sentence?
When imagery is greatly exaggerated for effect.
What is hyberbole?
This is the form of punctuation that you use between a complete sentence and the quotation that it is introducing/integrating into the paragraph.
What is a colon?
A noun that requires capital letters.
What is a proper noun?
Traditionally structured poem with four stanzas: three with four lines, and the last with a rhyming couplet.
What is a sonnet?
This is the sentence in the conclusion that connects back to the introduction.
What is the "so what?" or universalizing point?
The opposite of what is expected to happen creates this.
What is irony?
These are the three dots used to indicate missing words or phrases.
What are ellipses?
Replaces a proper noun.
What is a pronoun?