Poetry
Vocab
Vocab
The repetition of consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
The poet who wrote “The Raven”
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit
What is a stanza?
The pattern of beats or stressed syllables in a poem or song
What is rhythm?
What are rhythm & rhyme?
A poem in the shape of it’s subject
What is a concrete poem?
The poet who wrote “Sick”
Who is Shel Silverstein?
Regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
The repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
Light-hearted, humorous poems that have 5 lines
What is a limerick?
The poet who wrote “A Dream Deferred”
Who is Langston Hughes?
The use, more than once, of any element of language
What is repetition?
Writing not meant to be taken literally
What is figurative language?
What is the humor vanishes?
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
What is mood?
The poet who wrote “All Things Bright & Beautiful”
Who is Cecil Frances Alexander?
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme?
A figure of speech where something is compared to something else
What is a metaphor?
Using this language makes a humorous situation even more humorous
What is spirited language?
A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem
What is a refrain?
The poet who wrote “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
Who is Robert Frost?
Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
What is free verse poetry?
A song-like poem that tells a story
What is a ballad?
Two humorous authors we studied in this unit
Who are Shel Silverstein & Lewis Carroll?