English Terms

Question 1

Poetry

Answer 1

Special intensity given to expression, feelings and ideas with the usage of distinctive style and rhythm.

Question 2

Line

Answer 2

Subdivision of a poem; group of words arranged into a row

Question 3

Stanza

Answer 3

Division of a poem including two or more lines

Question 4

Speaker

Answer 4

Voice that communicates with the reader of the poem (not always author)

Question 5

Tone

Answer 5

AUTHOR’s attitude toward the subject of the poem

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Diction

Answer 6

Author’s choice of words (sometimes meaningful…)

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Denotation

Answer 7

Dictionary meaning of a word

Question 8

Connotation

Answer 8

Emmotionally charged word or phrase

Question 9

Mood

Answer 9

Feeling the audience gets when reading the author’s word choice

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Theme

Answer 10

Topic/meaning/meat of a poem

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Parallelism

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Repeated use of words/phrases that are similar in grammatical structure

Question 12

Figurative Language

Answer 12

Language not meant to be taken seriously. Used for descripive effect

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Literal Language

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To mean exactly what is written

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Imagery

Answer 14

Refers to language that stimulates your senses.

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Symbol

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Object, person, place, or experience that represents something else. Could have more than one meaning

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Structure

Answer 16

Organization of images, ideas, words, and lines

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Rhythm

Answer 17

Pattern of sound arranged by stressed and unstressed syllables

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Meter

Answer 18

Poetic device that serves as a linguistic sound pattern for the verses, as it gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound

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Rhyme

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Correspondence of sound between words or the ending of words, especially ends of lines of poetry

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End Rhyme

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Repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words

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Rhyme scheme

Answer 21

Described using letters of the alphabet. A,B,A,B

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Internal Rhyme

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Repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words. Occurs withing a line

Question 23

Couplet

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Two lines of a verse that form a unit, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme

Verse vs Stanza?

Question 24

Alliteration

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Repetition of sounds in the BEGINNING of words

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Assonance

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds within NON-RHYMING words

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

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Quatrain

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Poem or stanza of FOUR lines, especially having alternate rhyme scheme

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Sestet

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Poem or stanza of SIX lines, especially having alternate rhyme scheme

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Octave

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Poem or stanza with EIGHT lines, especially having alternate rhyme scheme

Question 30

Free verse

Answer 30

Poem sans fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement

Question 31

Narrative poetry

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Verse that tells a story; Ballads, epics, and short poems

Question 32

Lyric poetry

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Poetry that expresses a speaker’s thoughts and feelings. Short and musical

Question 33

Sonnet

Answer 33

Lyric poem of 14 lines, almost always writing in iambic pentameter and follows strict pattern of stanza division and rhyme

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Dramatic poetry

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Poetry that uses elements of drama. Intense situation/emotional conflict

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Ode

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Poem expressing a writer’s thoughts and feelings about a subject/idea, usually written to that subject. Writting in celebration, dedication, appreciation, or reflection

Question 36

Haiku

Answer 36

Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, three lines of five, seven, five. Tradionally evoking images of the natural world