Poetic Terms
The repetition of the same initial sound in a series of words.
What is alliteration?
“Hope is the thing with feathers” is an example of this figure of speech.
What is a metaphor?
A 14-line poem with a set rhyme scheme is called this.
What is a sonnet?
The speaker’s attitude toward the subject of the poem.
What is tone?
He wrote The Road Not Taken.
Who is Robert Frost?
The pattern of beats or stresses in a line of poetry.
What is rhythm?
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
A Japanese poem with 3 lines and a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
What is a haiku?
The unique style or personality expressed in a writer’s words.
What is voice?
This author wrote plays and poems. One of his famous poems is Sonnet 18: Shall I compare these summer's day.
Who is William Shakespeare?
The comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
A reference to another famous work, person, or event in literature or history.
What is allusion?
A poem that doesn’t follow regular rhyme or rhythm rules.
What is free verse?
When the speaker of a poem is the poet themselves, it is written in this perspective.
What is first person?
In addition to writing Still I Rise, this author also wrote several autobiographies about her childhood and early adulthood.
Who is Maya Angelou?
The use of descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
When the opposite of what you expect happens in poetry or literature.
What is irony?
In Still I Rise, Maya Angelou uses repeated phrases like “I rise.” This is an example of what structural device?
What is repetition?
Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise has a tone that can best be described as this.
What is defiant/confident/empowering?
This type of poem is written to praise or celebrate a person, object, or idea.
What is an ode?
The musical quality created by repeating vowel sounds in nearby words.
What is assonance?
“The wind whispered through the trees” combines two devices. Name them.
What are personification and imagery?
Identify the rhyme scheme of this stanza:
The sun is bright, the sky is blue
I feel so happy, how about you?
The flowers bloom, the birds all sing
It feels like joy in everything.
What is AABB?
In We Real Cool, Gwendolyn Brooks writes from the perspective of this group.
Who is rebellious youth?
The Harlem Renaissance poet who often wrote about dreams, including the poem Dreams.
Who is Langston Hughes?