Poetry Terms

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

A reference to a well known person place event literary work work of art etc. with which the reader is expected to be familiar

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables

Question 3

Coined word

Answer 3

A word created or made up by a poet

Question 4

Concrete poem

Answer 4

A poem shaped/structured to suggest something important about its meaning

Question 5

Consonance

Answer 5

Repetition in two or more word if final consonants in stressed syllables that are preceded by different vowel sounds

Question 6

Diction

Answer 6

A poets choice of words, usually discussed in conjunction with an adjective (I.e. Formal diction or conversational diction) which shaped a poems tone

Question 7

Imagery

Answer 7

Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses and creates experiences

Question 8

Metaphor

Answer 8

A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things using (often) “is” or “are”

Question 9

Mood

Answer 9

The feeling created by a literary work

Question 10

Onomatopoeia

Answer 10

Words that imitate/recreate the sounds they describe

Question 11

Personification

Answer 11

Figurative language that gives human characteristics to nonhuman things

Question 12

Repetition

Answer 12

Using more than once any element of language (sounds, words, phrases, etc. )

Question 13

Rhyme

Answer 13

Repetition of sounds at the ends of words

Question 14

Rhythm

Answer 14

A pattern of beats and stresses

Question 15

Simile

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A figure of speech that compare two unlike things using “like” or “as” a

Question 16

Speaker

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The voice that “talks” in a poem (not always the poet)

Question 17

Structure

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The way a poem is put together; the arrangement of words/lines to create a desired effect

Question 18

Symbol

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Anything that stands for or represents something else

Question 19

Theme

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A central idea that a port wishes to communicate in his/her poem

Question 20

Tone

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The writes attitude toward his/her audience and/or subject

Question 21

Voice

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A sense of the unique presence/ personality of the author/speaker behind the words of a poem

Question 22

Alliteration

Answer 22

Repetition of initial consonant sounds