Poetry Terms

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

Comparing two things using like or as

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

Comparing two things without using like or as. Ex: Noah has the heart of a lion

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

Giving a non human thing human qualities. Ex: The wind howled at the nighttime sky

Question 4

Symbol

Answer 4

An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.

Example: “a new dawn” talks about a new day but also a fresh start

Question 5

Alliteration

Answer 5

Alliteration is a literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. Whether it is the consonant sound or a specific vowel group.

Example: The Wicked Witch of the West

Question 6

Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

sound words whose pronunciation to the actual sound they represent.

Example: grunt buzz hum

Question 7

Free Verse

Answer 7

Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme

Question 8

End Rhyme

Answer 8

a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same. An example of end rhyme is the poem, Star Light, Star Bright

Question 9

Internal Rhyme

Answer 9

defined as metrical lines in which its middle words and its end words rhymes with each other.

Example: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”

Question 10

Rhyme scheme

Answer 10

the practice of rhyming words placed at the end of the lines in the prose or poetry

Example: Roses are red (a)
Violets are blue (b)
Beautiful they all may be (c)
But I love you (b)
A-b-c-b rhyme scheme

Question 11

Rhythm

Answer 11

pattern of rhymes that is created by using words that produce the same, or similar sounds.

Example: I am a little tea cup short and stout here is my handle and this is my spout..

Question 12

Connotations

Answer 12

Figurative

Examples: Throne which if fig for chair

Question 13

Denotation

Answer 13

Literal
Example: they built a house. House means they are actually building a house if home was used there are too many emotions that are involved with home

Question 14

Hyperbole

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A figure of speech involving exaggeration.

Example: I’m so hungry I can eat a horse

Question 15

Oxymoron

Answer 15

Two words that contradict each other.

Example: a little big, pretty ugly

Question 16

Syntax

Answer 16

Sentence construction

Question 17

Diction

Answer 17

Authors word choice

Question 18

Theme

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The overall moral of the story or basically the main subject.

Example: the theme of Romeo and Juliet is sacrifice tragedy etc.

Question 19

Allusion

Answer 19

figure of speech whereby the author refers to a subject matter such as a place, event, or literary work by way of a passing reference

Question 20

Figurative Language

Answer 20

use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words

Example: Hyperbole, metaphor, exaggeration

Question 21

Poetry

Answer 21

Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—

Question 22

Stanza

Answer 22

a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse or paragraph

Question 23

Apostrophe

Answer 23

an apostrophe is a figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing

Question 24

Extended metaphor

Answer 24

comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

Question 25

Sensory imagery

Answer 25

Sensory imagery draws on our senses of touch, taste, smell sight and sound to create a vivid and evocative picture in the mind of the reader.