Poetry Conventions

Question 0

Structure: stanza

Answer 0

Paragraphs of poem

Question 1

What is form?

Answer 1

• length and type of poem
• layout
• tone/mood

Question 2

Structure: rhyme

Answer 2

Couplets
ABC
Used for easy reading
- fun theme
- ironic
-suggests themes

Question 3

Structure: alliteration (as structural element)

Answer 3

Used to bind together poem in absence of rhyme

Question 4

Structure: enjambment

Answer 4

Running of on thought/sentence from one line to the next without a break

Question 5

Structure: verse

Answer 5

Sentence

Question 6

Language: hyperbole

Answer 6

Dramatic exaggeration the sounds untrue

- I’m so hungry I can eat a horse

Question 7

Language: diction

Answer 7

Authors choice of words and how they affect meaning

Question 8

Language: assonance

Answer 8

• repetition of sound
• slow down reading
• create rhythm

Question 9

Language: allegory

Answer 9

Interpreted to reveal hidden meaning

- moral or political/social

Question 10

Types of poems: sonnet

Answer 10

• composed around a single expressed idea or sentiment
• 14 lines (iambic pentameter)
  
  • 3 quatrains and 2 couplets

Question 11

Types of poems: blank verse

Answer 11

• no rhyme but contain iambic pentameter

- 2 syllables long: one stressed one unstressed

Question 12

Types of poems: free verse

Answer 12

No rhyme and irregular structure

Question 13

Types of poems: epic

Answer 13

Serious poem that tells a story

• heroic event or deeds
• no set structure

Question 14

Types of poems: ode

Answer 14

Addresses a certain person or thing, by use of metaphor, similes and hyperbole