Poetry
What is measured writing?
Poetry
A poem that tells a story in third person is a
narrative poem.
The repetition of sounds between words or endings is a
rhyme.
The number of repeated feet in a line is the line’s poetic
meter
Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally is
Figurative Language
What is the author of a poem called?
Poet
A poem that focuses on the poet’s feelings, observations, thoughts, and perceptions is a
lyric poem.
A consistent pattern of rhymes found in the line endings of a stanza or poem is the
rhyme scheme.
Reading a poem’s line aloud syllable-by-syllable to mark the stresses and feet is called
scanning.
Comparing two things without the words like or as is a
“metaphor.”
Who is talking in the poem?
The Speaker
Poetry that is a speech in first person is
dramatic poetry.
The beat of the poem in which the syllables fall is its....The sounds and silences that create a pattern.
Rhythm
The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, or lines in a poem.
Repetition
Comparing two things using the words like or as is a
“simile.”
A single row of words in a poem is a
line.
Poetry that is written without the use of rhyme but has consistent meter is
blank verse.
The pattern of STRESSED and unstressed syllables repeated in a line of verse is the rhythm’s type of
Foot
A series of similar sounds is
Alliteration
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things is
“personification.”
A group of lines in a poem is a
stanza.
Poetry that is written without the use of strict meter or rhyme that uses the natural rhythms of speech is
free verse.
/u S/ pattern
de-SCRIBE
/S u/ pattern
SLOW-ly
/u u S/ pattern
‘twas the NIGHT
Iamb
Trochee
Anapest
The dictionary definition of a word or phrase is
Literal Language
A word that imitates the sound it makes is an
“onomatopoeia.”