Figurative Language
Word of phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
What is Imagery?
Poetry that is open to pattern, nonconforming, and rhyme less. "Free of the Rules"
What is Free Verse?
A group of lines in poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces. Like the paragraphs of poetry.
What is a Stanza?
Unrhymed verse that has three lines usually containing 5,7,5 syllables.
What is a Haiku?
Two lines of a verse or stanza that are joined by a rhyme.
What is a Couplet?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is Alliteration?
Written in lines of iambic pentameter but does NOT use end rhymes.
What is Blank Verse?
These are the capitol letters, line length, and word position; also called the "shape" of the poem.
What is the Graphic Elements of Poetry?
Used more than once, of any element of language- A sound, word, phrase clause, or an entire sentence.
What is Repetition?
A stanza of four lines.
What is a Quatrain?
The exaggerated phrase often used within literature.
What is a Hyperbole?
A highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker.
What is Lyric Poetry?
The pattern of rhyming lines in poetry. Ex. ABAB
What is Rhyme Scheme?
Feelings created by the reader by a literary work.
What is Mood?
A set or group of three lines in a verse or stanza.
What is a Tercet?
When human-like qualities are given to an animal or object.
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
What is a Ballad?
The literary work focused on the expression of feelings and ideas through a distinctive style that is often rhythmical.
What is Poetry?
How the author feels about what he or she is writing about?
What is Tone?
The five human senses that are analyzed in poetry.
What are hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell?
A metaphor that goes several lines or possibly the entire length of a poem.
What is Extended Metaphor?
A poem with 14 lines written in a specific rhyme scheme. Best form of poetry that expresses romantic or deep feelings.
What is a Sonnet?
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is a Meter?
Heroic Poetry that celebrates the deeds of a hero. Usually written hundreds of years ago about myths.
What is Epic Poetry?
This type of meter is found in Blank Verse.
What is Iambic Pentameter?