Back to Basics
Words, Phrases, Sentences, Paragraphs, Chapters
What are Prose?
What is a line?
Giving human qualities to non-human things
What is personification?
What is a monorhyme?
What is a haiku?
Syllables, Feet, Lines, Stanzas, Cantos
What is Poetry?
Italian for "room" or "place for stopping or standing"
What is a stanza?
What is an example of a symbol?
The first and fourth lines rhyme and the second and third lines rhyme
What is an enclosed rhyme?
Contains 14 lines split into 3 quatrains and 1 couple
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
A style of writing that uses figurative language and imagery to create a deeper meaning and evoke emotions
What is Poetic Language?
It is made up of 2 unstressed syllables and 1 stressed syllables
What is annapest?
Repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple sentences or clauses
What is anaphora?
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
A face like yours
Belongs in a Zoo
What is an example of Simple 4 line?
A poem narrating a story in short stanzas primarily using the rhyme scheme ABCB
What is a ballad?
What are the oldest poems?
A line with 8 feet
What is octameter?
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
What is hyperbole?
The rhyme scheme is ABAB
What is an alternate rhyme?
Taken from the Italian word that means "a little sound or song"
What is Sonnet?
This story centers on Achilles and his conflict with Agamemnon over a woman names Briseis
What is the Illiad?
Hauser is made up of 2 syllables, 1 stressed and then 1 unstressed
What is an example of Trochaic?
The repeated sounds of consonants
What is consonance?
Assigning letters to the last word of each line in a poem
What is a rhyme scheme?
A short and emotional poem that has a musical quality
What is a Lyric poem?