Poetry Flashcards
What’s a poem
An arangement of word to creat a strong feeling through meaning, sound, and rhythm
What are lines
Rows of word, don’t always follow rules
Stanzas
Groups of lines set apart by spaces, fits overall structure of the poem
Rhyme
Same ending sound
Rhythm
Stressed and unstressed syllables in a line, beat
Meter
Recurring pattern
Repetition
Repeating of word or lines in poetry
Alliteration
Repetition of an initial consonant sound
Simile
Comparithat uses like or as
Metaphor
Does not use like or as
Personification
Human qualities to no living things
Symbolism
Thing to stand for something else
Allusion
Referring to another work
Point of view
Position or outlook from witch the speaker or observes something
Speaker
The narrator of the story
Theme
Central idea that a poem explores
Tone
Mood the poem creats
Lyric poem
Mood the poem short like a song
Ode
2 or more stanzas
Haiku
Very short poem in 3 lines usually about the narrator
Sonnet
Fourteen lines, first 8 lines created an idea, last 6 questions the idea
Ballad
Stanzas of 2 to 4 and a refrain that repeates
Free verse
Does not follow any rule of rhythm or rhyme
Denotations
Dictionary definition