Poetry Flashcards
Different types of poetry and technical language
What is a couplet?
Two lines in a stanza.
What is a stanza?
A verse or paragraph in a way.
What is a tercet?
Three lines in a stanza.
What is 3 lines in a stanza called?
A tercet.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Where a poem has a set rhyming pattern.
Give an example of an ABAB rhyme scheme about cats, dogs, hats and logs (random I know)
There was a cat
There was a dog
The cat was like a hat
The dog was like a log.
Anything where lines 1and 3 rhyme and where lines 2 and 4 rhyme.
What is 4 lines in a stanza called?
A quatrain.
What is a couplet?
Two lines in a stanza.
What is a quatrain?
Three lines in a stanza.
What is one line in a stanza called?
A monostich.
What is a monostich?
One line in a stanza.
How many lines does a haiku have?
Three.
How many stanzas does a haiku have?
One.
How many syllables does a haiku have in total?
17
How many syllables does a haiku have in the first line?
Five.
How many syllables does a haiku have in the second line?
Seven.
How many syllables does a haiku have in the third line?
Five.
What is a haiku traditionally about?
Nature.
Where do haikus originate from?
Japan.
Who’s a famous Japanese poet from the 17th century?
Matsumoto Bashō
What did Matsumoto Bashō write?
The haiku ‘an old pond’
What is an elegy poem normally about?
Loss and sadness
What rhyme scheme do elegy’s normally have?
ABAB
Does an acrostic poem rhyme?
No not always
What is the main part of an acrostic poem?
They have the theme of the poem spelt with letters throughout the poem.
Who is Benjamin Zephaniah?
A Jamaican-English poet and author.
What do you normally have at the start of an analytical paragraph?
A topic sentence.
What do you call an example that you have taken from the text?
A quote (although don’t say, ‘this quote shows’ because that’s wrong xxx)
What is a synonym for shows?
Highlights, accentuates, reinforces, emphasises, evokes
What should you name when talking about a quote?
The poetic devices.
What is a metaphor?
Where you say two different things ‘are’ each other.
What is a simile?
When you compare two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
What should you have at the end of an analytical essay?
The main message of the poem or text, and a reference back to your topic sentence.
What does ambiguity/ ambiguous mean?
When something has two different meanings or interpretations.
Who is ‘Happy Birthday Moon’ by?
Raymond Antrobus
What is different in a way about Raymond Antrobus?
He is deaf, and in his poem ‘Happy Birthday Moon’, he talks about a special moment he shared with his dad.
What is it called when you are colourblind?
Monochromacy
Who wrote, She belongs to the world?
Mandy Coe
What is different about ‘She belongs to the world’?
It is multilingual, and describes an animal in a different language every time.
What animal is, ‘she belongs to the world’ about?
A butterfly
What is butterfly in Spanish, from ‘she belongs to the world’?
Mariposa
What is onomatopoeia?
Where you use words that, when you pronounce them, sound like the sound it is making, for example: splash
What is auditory imagery?
When you describe sounds to make the reader feel like they can really hear the setting.
What is visual imagery?
When you describe something’s appearance so that the reader feels like they can easily picture it.
