Poetry Terms

Question 1

What are lines?

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Lines are rows of words that do not follow rules

Question 2

What is a poem?

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Words Arranged in a way to create a strong feeling through meaning sound and rhythm ex “the storm”

Question 3

What are stanzas?

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They are groups of lines set apart by spaces
Fits the overall structure of a poem breaks lines and stanzas in unusual places to get the readers attention

Question 4

Rhyme

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Same ending sound ex is whirling and swirling past

Question 5

Rhyme scheme

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Abab what ending word rhymes with another

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Rhythm

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Creates a beat Is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in. Line of poetry

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Meter

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R]is a recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

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Repetition

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Repeating words or lines in poetry it can unify a poem or reinforce the meaning or theme

Question 9

Alliteration

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Is the repetition of an initial consonant sound ex

Question 10

Simile

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Comparison uses like or as EX the lake was as smooth as glass

Question 11

Metaphor

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Same as a simile but dose not use like or as ex mia remember everything her mind is a steel trap

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Personification

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Gives human quality’s to non living things the sun smiled at us on our picnic

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Symbolism

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The use of an image or thing to stand for something else Lindsay wore black to the funeral

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Allusions

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Reference to another work it rained so much that i thought we would have to build an ark

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POV

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Point of view the position of the speaker

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Speaker

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Is the narrator of a story the voice of a poem

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Theme

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The central idea of a poem breaks lines

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Tone

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The mood of a poem and may change as the speaker changes topics

Question 19

Lyric poem

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A short poem like a song

Question 20

Ode

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A poem with one or two more stanzas

Question 21

Haiku

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Very short poem with 17 syllables in three lines
Mostly about nature

Question 22

Sonnet

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A poem with 14 lines first 8 line create the idea the last 6 lines question the idea

Question 23

Free verse

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A poem that dose not follow any rules, rhythm
Or rhyme

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Ballad

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A short poem with stanzas of 2 to 4 lines and refrains for repeats

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Denotations

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A dictionary of definitions ex hideous and homely mean an unpleasant appearance

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Connotations

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A meaning that is implied by a word separate form it dictionary meaning ex fa baby vrs chubby baby