definitions
what is a speaker?
A person who voices the poem.
what is rhythm?
Regular repeated sound.
what is a ballad?
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
what is a free verse?
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
what is a stanza?
A group of lines within a poem.
what is a rhyme scheme?
Pattern of rhymes at the end line in a poem.
what is a caesura?
A break between words within a metrical foot.
what is a end rhyme?
A rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses.
what is a rhyme?
Corresponding sound between words in order to create better flow.
what is a sonnet?
A poem of fourteen lines using formal rhyme scheme usage.
what is a consonance?
Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.
what is a elegy?
A poem of serious reflection typically a lament for the dead.
what is tone?
The poets overall attitude, language, and subject matter relating to the overall mood of the poem.
what is a simile?
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another using like or as
what is a alliteration?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
what is a couplet?
Two lines of a verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that form a unit.
what is a symbol?
A person, setting, or object that means something more than its literal meaning.
what is a allusion?
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.
what is a assonance?
The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible.