Poetry Flashcards
The ordinary form of spoken/written language, without metrical structure.
Prose
Uses figurative language, written in lines and stanzas.
Poetry
Narrator of a poem. *Can sometimes be the poet themselves! Can be in 1st or 3rd POV.
Speaker
Poetry is written in _________, which can be as little as one word!
Line
Author/writer of a poem.
Poet
Group of lines (like a paragraph).
Stanza
A word or phrase that is repeated throughout the poem, like the chorus in a song.
Refrain
The beat created by the sound of the words.
Rhythm
The pattern of lines, syllables, and stanzas in a poem. Ex. Haiku are written in 1 stanza that contains 3 lines. The first and third lines have 5 syllables each, and the second line has 7.
Form
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (when you read a poem you will notice certain words or syllables stand out more than others).
Meter
Words that sound alike because they share the same ending sounds.
Rhyme
Rhyme vs. Rhythm
Rhyme is the repetition of vowel sounds (assonance).
Rhythm is the beat created by the sounds of the words.
Poetry often uses ______ and _________ to compare things to other things. This is done to emphasize certain characteristics of the subject. (ex. “Her eyes were blue like the sea” emphasizes how blue her eyes were.)
metaphor (compares without using “like”/”as”)
simile (compares by using “like”/”as”)
Poetry often uses _____________ by using one thing to represent another.
“The magic cap represented power to Dorothy and her friends, but to the Flying Monkeys it represented captivity.”
Bonus: Explain what this is and why.
symbolism
Bonus: Symbolism because the cap is representing things.
Example:
(What is this and why?)
“The door to her thoughts was closed and locked tightly. Nobody could get in to see what she was thinking.”
Bonus: What does it mean? Does she literally have a door on her face?
Symbolism- door represents her eyes/facial expressions. Nobody could ever tell what she was thinking.
