Sound Devices
An example of this is "Sara's Seven Sisters Slept Soundly."
What is Alliteration?
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
What is Allusion?
This is a story/narrative in poetic form.
What is a ballad?
What is diction?
An example of this is: "I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
What is Assonance?
An example of this is "My heart's a stereo."
What is metaphor?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
What is Free Verse poetry?
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
What is enjambment?
An example of this is "The zoo was amazing, especially the lizards and chimpanzees."
What is Consonance?
An example of this is "My love is like a red, red rose."
What is simile?
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
What is a stanza?
The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and number of syllables per line.
What is meter?
An example of this is "Peter picked a pike of pickled peppers."
What is Alliteration / Consonance?
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
What is a symbol?
A single line of poetry.
What is a verse?
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry.
What is rhythm?
Examples of this include "hissed," "crackle," and "splash."
What is Onomatopoeia?
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.
What is the theme?
Poetry created by spelling out a word or name in the first letter of each line.
Acrostic Poetry
The attitude the poem's narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character.
What is tone?