When the line in a poem runs to the next without stopping due to a lack of punctuation or implied punctuation.
What is Enjambment?
100
The reader should read the poem several times out loud, and then determine what the poem is, basically, about when doing this.
What is encountering a poem for the first time?
100
A common figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as like, as, than, appears, and seems.
What is Simile?
100
A group of lines in a poem that, generally, has its own rhyme and meter. The poetic equivalent of a paragraph.
What is a Stanza?
100
Extravagant Exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
200
A type of rhyme where the stressed vowels make sounds that are like each other, but the sounds are not exactly the same.
What is Slant Rhyme/Off Rhyme/Half Rhyme?
200
A poet tends to use this when a literal mode of expression is inadequate.
What is figurative language?
200
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, without use of like or as.
What is Metaphor?
200
A word, phrase or figure of speech that evokes sensory impressions in the reader.
What is Imagery?
200
The writer’s expressed attitude toward the poem’s topic, which is meant to produce general feelings or impressions about the poem or different parts of the poem.
What is Tone?
300
b. The repetition of an internal vowel sound in nearby words that do not end the same.
What is Assonance?
300
The reader should do this after reading the poem to ensure meaning. The reader could do this for each individual stanza.
What is summarize?
300
A story that symbolizes an idea for the purpose of making abstract concepts more concrete.
What is Allegory?
300
Something literal that will evoke an image of something more complicated and abstract in the mind of the reader.
What is Symbol?
300
A blending or intermingling of different senses created through the author’s use of literary and/or poetic devices.
What is Synesthesia?
400
The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable: "And the last age should show your heart."
What is Alliteration?
400
This is meant to enhance mood and tone, as well as increase the poem's literary value.
What is word choice.
400
Giving human qualities to something non-human.
What is Personification?
400
A phrase or expressed idea where the words or ideas seem to contradict one another, but do not.
What is Paradox?
400
A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.
What is Irony?
500
A type of rhyme where the consonants of stressed syllables are identical.
What is Consonance?
500
"Marvel Noir," by Anne Lauinger is this in relation to "To His Coy Mistress," by Andrew Marvell.
What is an allusion?
500
Something literal that will evoke an image of something more complicated and abstract in the mind of the reader.
What is Symbol?
500
The pattern of the end rhymes in a poem. For example, a rhyming couplet.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
500
A phrase where two contradictory words are used together.