Poetry Terms Pt. 1
A four lined stanza.
What is a quatrain?
A stanza with three lines.
What is a tercet?
A comparison between two things using like or as.
What is simile?
A comparison between two things not using like or as.
What is metaphor?
The way sentences are put together.
What is syntax?
Create pauses and rhythms.
What are line breaks?
The rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech.
What is prosody?
Life is a highway.
What is an example of metaphor?
Something that says one thing, but means another.
What is figurative language?
The where and or when the story takes place.
What is setting?
The person who writes the poem.
Who is the poet?
The voice of the poem. Can include: people, animals, and inanimate objects.
Who is the speaker?
When a series of words all start with the same vowel.
What is assonance?
SPLAT!
What is an example of onomatopoeia?
The style of speaking. The word choice.
What is diction?
Include things like line length, word position, capitalization and punctuation.
What are graphical elements?
Lines make these up.
What are stanzas?
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is an example of hyperbole?
To describe something as though it were a person. Giving human characteristics to non-living things.
What is personification?
The distinct personality, style or point of view of a piece of writing or any other creative work.
What is voice?
A subdivision of poetry, specifically a group of words arranged in a row.
What is line?
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit.
What is couplet?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
What is an example of alliteration?
A play on words. Involves using a word with one or more meanings.
What is pun?
Lyrical, Acrostic, Concrete, Sonnet, and Ode.
What are a few different types of poems?