Poetic Terms
Assigning human characteristics to a non-human thing
What is personification?
The speaker of this poem has already died
What is "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"?
This type of essay explains the similarities and differences between two different texts.
What is compare and contrast?
These three website endings are usually more reliable than .com or .net.
What are .edu, .gov, and .org?
Repeated consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
This is where the main character of "Daystar" goes when she wants "a little room for thinking."
What is behind the garage/the backyard?
This type of compare-and-contrast organizational style discusses all of one poem and then all of another poem.
What is subject-by-subject or block format?
If you find a .org website, this is the link you click on to see the organization's history, mission statement, and board of directors.
What is About Us?
Repeated vowel sounds
What is assonance?
The speaker of this poem pledges eternal love to a girl who has died.
What is "Annabel Lee"?
This type of compare-and-contrast organizational style goes back and forth between the two poems.
What is point-by-point?
This is a sign that a website is not reliable.
A variety of answers are correct: out of date, broken links, no author, no "About Us," no references, trying to sell a product, signs of bias, misspellings, grammar errors
What is onomatopoeia?
In "If You Forget Me" the speaker says he will do this if his lover stops loving him.
What is he will forget her/stop loving her?
This goes in the middle of a quote sandwich.
What is a quotation?
A variety of answers are correct: more reliable sources, more peer-reviewed sources, more in-depth information, citation is provided
When the speaker of a poem directly addresses a real or imagined listener
What is apostrophe?
Federico Garcia Lorca writes about this instrument weeping.
What is the guitar?
This is an interesting sentence that captures the reader's attention at the beginning of an essay.
What is a hook/grabber?
This is a digital collection of material on a certain subject contained within the library, or a "library within a library"
What is a database?