Poetic Themes And Devices

Question 1

Carpe diem

Answer 1

Latin for Seize the day
It advocates making the most time because it passes swiftly in life is short. Often used in seduction to argue for indulging in earthly pleasures.

Question 2

Long lines are read more quickly since…

Answer 2

The reader is often eager to reach the end of the line, and does not have to stop to find the next word.

Question 3

Short lines cause the reader to…

Answer 3

Briefly pause and look at the next line so their reading is slowed.

Question 4

Concrete poetry

Answer 4

Arranged so the full poem takes a shape that is relevant to the palms message. For example, a concrete poem about the beach may be arranged to look like a palm tree.

Question 5

Free verse

Answer 5

Does not always incorporate meter or rhyme, it relies more heavily on punctuation and structure to influence the readers experience and create emphasis. Uses the characteristics of lines and stanzas and punctuation to establish flow and tone, and stand.

Question 6

End-stopped lines

Answer 6

Lines with a punctuation mark at the end

Question 7

Enjambed lines

Answer 7

Lines that do not end with a punctuation mark

Question 8

Hyperbole

Answer 8

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
“It weighs a ton”
Communicates the strength of a poets, or personas feelings, enhances the mood of the poem.

Question 9

Imagery

Answer 9

Appeals to the readers senses, creating vivid, mental pictures, evoking, reader, emotions, and responses, and helping to develop themes.

Question 10

Irony

Answer 10

The expression of one’s meaning by using language, that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or empathetic effect
Draws the readers attention to the authors point and communicates the poems tone

Question 11

Metaphor

Answer 11

Directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. Emphasizes similarities, enhances, imagery, and affects readers perceptions.

Question 12

Simile

Answer 12

Comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind that emphasizes similarities, enhances imagery, and affects readers perceptions.

Question 13

Mood

Answer 13

Communicates the atmosphere of a poem, build a sense of tension, and evokes the readers emotions.

Question 14

Onomatopoeia

Answer 14

The usage of words, to describe any sound that is created by a living, being a nonliving object, or entity, and can sometimes represent the sound itself. Appeal to the readers, auditory sins, and Hanses sound imagery even when the poem is visual (read silently) rather than auditory (read aloud).

Question 15

Rhyme

Answer 15

Connects and unites versus, give us the rhyming words, emphasis, and makes poems more fluent.

Question 16

Symbolism

Answer 16

Uses symbols to represent something beyond a literal meaning. Communicate themes, develops imagery, evokes readers emotions, and elicits a response from the reader.

Question 17

Villanelle

Answer 17

19 line poem, composed of five tercets and one quatrain with a defining characteristic of repetition, two lines appear repeatedly throughout the poem.