Structures
A 3 line Japanese structure that focuses on nature and includes a syllable structure of 5/7/5
What is a haiku?
The literal dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
Using the same consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words.
What is alliteration?
The basic unit of measurement for meter in poetry.
What is a foot?
Exaggeration or overstatement used to create an effect for the reader
What is hyperbole?
A pair of successive lines of poetry that rhyme and are of the same meter.
What is a couplet?
The associated meaning of a word above and beyond it's dictionary definition. The feeling a word invokes.
What is connotation?
Rhyme were the same vowels sounds are used in a number of words.
What is assonance?
A lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable
What is Iambic?
A reference to a person, event, or story that it is presumed that the reader will know
What is an allusion?
A poetic structure made of 14 lines comprised of two octets or two sestets and one couplet.
What is a sonnet?
Non-formal speech often specific to different groups of people
What is colloquial speech?
Harsh discordance of sound
What is cacophony?
A succession of harmonious sounds often with harmonious meaning as well.
What is euphony?
Giving an animal, object, or idea human qualities
What is personification?
Songs or lyrical poems that are usually organized in quatrains with ABAB rhyme schemes
What is a ballad?
A word that is no longer in use but may be used to convey the feeling of another time period.
What is an archaic word?
Consonant sounds that are repeated not just in the initial sounds of words.
What is consonance?
the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse
What is rhyme scheme?
What is an apostrophe?
a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm. The third and fourth lines only have to have five to seven syllables, and have to rhyme with each other and have the same rhythm.
What is a limerick?
A writers choice of words. Could be formal or informal.
What is diction?
The /s/ sound repeated more than twice in quick succession
What is silibance?
A group of lines organized together in a poem
What is a stanza?
A statement that may seem absurd or contradictory but yet can be true, or at least makes sense.
What is a paradox?