Poetry Terms

Question 1

Poem

Answer 1

words to create a strong feeling through meaning,sound,rhythm

Question 2

Lines

Answer 2

Rows of words,dont always follow rules

Question 3

Stanzas

Answer 3

Groups of lines set apart by spaces,fits overall structure of poem,break lines in unusual places to get the readers attention

Question 4

Rhyme

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Same ending sound

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Rhythm

Answer 6

Beat,stressed,unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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Meter

Answer 7

Recurring pattern

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Repetition

Answer 8

Repeating of words or lines in poetry

Question 9

Alliteration - baby boy blue

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Repeating sound

Question 10

Simile

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Comparison, uses like or as

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Metaphor

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Comparison, Does not use like or as

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Personification

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Giving Human qualities to a nonliving thing

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Symbolism

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Thing stand for something else

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Allusion

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Reference to another work

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Point of view

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Position or outlook from which the speaker tells a story

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Speaker

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The narrator of a story,voice of a poem

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Theme

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Central idea that a poem explores

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Tone

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Mood the poem creates,playful,angry,change as the speakers topic moves in a different direction

Question 19

Lyric poem

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Short,like a song

Question 20

Ode

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Two or more stanzas i

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Haiku

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Very short poem,three lines,about nature

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Sonnet

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Fourteen lines,first eight lines develop one idea,last six lines question that idea

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Ballad

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Stanzas of two or four lines and refrain,repeats

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Free verse

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Does not follow any rules of Rhythm or Rhyme

Question 25

Denotations

Answer 25

Dictionary definition

Question 26

Connotation

Answer 26

Culture’s definition