Poetry & Sound Key Terms
This type of poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the writer/speaker; songlike quality or set to a beat; specific rhyming schemes.
What is Lyric/Lyrical Poetry?
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Flowers are dead.
Thanks a lot.
What is ABAC?
What is Robbery/Theft?
These are the main traits of the Highwayman when he is introduced.
What is... well dressed/fancy, armed and dangerous?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words.
What is Alliteration?
This is a form of poetry that tells a story and has a setting, characters, and a plot; written in a structured form, often with rhyme; can be long or short, simple or complex.
What is Narrative Poetry?
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
What is ABAB?
This is the Landlord's daughter, and the Highwayman's girlfriend.
Who is Bess?
This is a potential motive of the Ostler for ratting out the Highwayman to the soldiers.
What is....a love triangle? OR What is... he loves Bess.
Words whose final syllables have the exact same sound.
What is a Complete Rhyme?
Words whose sounds imitate their meaning.
What is Onomatopoeia?
I sat down for my lunch one day.
I had my chicken ramen.
I put in the boiling water
to soften up the noodles.
What is ABCD?
This is who overheard the Highwayman and the Landlord's daughter talking.
Who is Tim?
This is the literary technique used when the Highwayman tells his girlfriend that he will come to her by moonlight, 'though hell should bar the way.'
What is foreshadowing?
Words whose final syllables almost rhyme.
What is a Partial Rhyme?
The repetition of the same consonant sounds among words (not limited to initial sounds)
What is Consonance?
I teleported home one night,
with Ron, and Sue, and Meg.
Ron stole Meggy's heart away,
and I got Susie's leg.
What is ABCB?
This how the Red Coat soldiers intended to capture the Highwayman.
They kidnapped the Landlord's daughter and are hurting her.
This is the final fate of the Highwayman and the Landlord's daughter, as indicated by the fact the last two stanzas are in italicized text.
What is... they are ghosts and haunt the road?
Rhymes within lines of poetry.
What is Internal Rhyme?
The repetition of the same vowel sounds among words.
What is assonance?
I danced with lovely tabby cat.
It wore a silver suit and black top hat.
It offered me some rats to eat,
but I told it I preferred pig meat.
What is AABB?
This is how the Landlord's daughter warns the Highwayman that he should stay away from the Inn.
What is, She shoots herself.
This animal is how the reader can concretely link the ostler to the death of the Highwayman and the Landlord's daughter.
What are dogs?
(Tim is described as 'dumb as a dog', and in the stanza where the Highwayman is killed, it states he was shot 'down like a dog on the highway')
Rhymes at the end of lines
What are End Rhymes?