Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions
What is personification
100
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
What is Synechdoche
100
Big ideas that are hard to visualize. They can mean different things to different people, and thus are quite ambiguous. For the most part, they are to be avoided in poetry.
What is Abstract Imagery
100
The first thing a reader should look at when analyzing a poem
What is the Title - OR - the Poem as a whole
100
"Why do you think the poet chose these words?" is a question that should be asked when examining...
What is The Poet's Choice of Words
200
A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison.
What is Simile
200
The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Example: pensive poets, nattering nabobs of negativism.
What is Alliteration
200
These give meaning to ideas and emotions. They appeal to the senses: sight, smell, sound, touch, and taste.
What is Concrete Imagery
200
The last thing a reader should look at when analyzing a poem
What are Strong Words
200
The poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes is an example of
What is an Extended Metaphor
300
Word order and sentence structure.
What is Syntax
300
An exact rhyme (rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as with assonance) within a line of poetry: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
What is Internal Rhyme
300
The writer's attitude that is expressed in the writing.
What is Atmosphere
300
"What is the tone or atmosphere in the poem?" is a question that should be asked when reading...
What is The Poem as a Whole
300
The rhyme scheme for a limerick
What is AABBA
400
Two successive rhyming lines. These end the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is a Couplet
400
A comparison between two unlike things, which does not use "like" or "as" for the comparison
What is a Metaphor
400
The feeling the reader gets from the writing.
What is Mood
400
"Does the rhyme scheme change?" is a question that should be asked when looking at...
What is Each Stanza
400
"Her cheeks were red as roses" is an example of
What is a Simile
500
Overstatement, or exaggeration for effect
What is Hyperbole
500
A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic.
What is Syntax
500
The emotions and feeling created from the character.
What is Tone
500
"What is the poet’s point?" is a question that should be asked when...