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Stanza
What is the best definition of Stanza?
What makes a poem sound musical?
The repetition of letter sounds.
Alliteration or Rhyming.
A feeling or attitude associated with a word.
What is a connotation?
Sensory Details
What are details that activate the senses.
Personification
What is figurative language making an object or idea seem human.
Line Breaks
Purpose: to group words and ideas together in important ways
Placement: where you want writers to pause briefly
What was the role of the bard in ancient England and Ireland?
to recite the history of the tribe or its heroes
To suggest or emphasize a feeling
How do poets use repetition of sounds?
How are literal and figurative language different?
Figurative language makes a comparison - literal language does not.
Persona
What is human or actor?
Poetry that expresses emotion
Lyric Poetry
How is free verse different from older, more traditional forms of poetry?
It’s written to sound like ordinary speech.
They give the poem or line an extra layer of meaning.
What effect is caused by the use of multiple-meaning words in a poem?
How can you tell the difference between simile and metaphor?
Similes always contain like or as.
In Greek mythology, Khaos exists as a layer between earth and the heavens.
Which literary element are you more likely to see in poetry than prose?
Figures of Speech or Figurative Language
What is another phrase for off rhyme?
slant rhyme
The New York poet who arranged 110 lines of the Tower One collaborative poem.
Bob Holman
How do similes and metaphors help a poem make a point or create and effect?
They help readers imagine an object or scene more clearly.
They prompt readers to think about objects or actions differently.
Persona Poem
What is a poem that expresses the point of view of a character or person in history.
How is Poetic Language Different From Prose?
More compressed
More musical
Has rhythm
For the sunset wings and the world-end things is a type of what kind of rhyme?
Internal rhyme.
Why is poetry more useful than prose for expressing strong emotions?
Poetry relies more on the connotations of words.
Poetry requires some understanding of how feelings work.
What kind of language will you find in most poems?
Figurative and literal language
__________ provided many roots for English words.
What are Greece and Rome. Or, Greek and Latin.