Terms Flashcards
Poem
Ex. Roses are red, violets are blue:
poet chooses and arranges words to create a strong feeling through meaning, sound, and rhythm.
Lines
Ex. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by,”
rows of words. Do not always follow the rules of capitalization and punctuation.
Stanzas
Ex. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep.”.
a group of lines set apart by spaces.fits overall structure of a poem.
Rhyme
Ex. cat/hat/, dog/log
same ending sound
Rhyme scheme
a sequence of letters such as abab
Rhythm
Ex.Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
beat,stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Meter
Ex. unstressed unstressed stressed, unstressed unstressed stressed.”
recurring pattern
Repetition
Ex. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”
repeating of words or lines in poetry,unify a poem,reinforce the meaning or theme.
Alliteration
Ex. “With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim”
repetition of an initial consonant sound
Simile
ex. The lake was as smooth as glass
Uses like or as to compare two things
Metaphor
ex. Mia remembers everything her mind is a steel trap
a comparison that doesn’t use like or as.
Personification
Ex.the sun smiled on our picnic
The assigning of human qualities to non living thing
Symbolism
Ex. Lindsay wore black to the funeral
The use of an image or thing to stand for something else
Allusion
Ex.it rained so much I thought we had to build a ark
A reference to another work such as the Bible or mythology.
Point of view
Ex. I’ve come to this coffee shop so often,
Position or outlook from which the speaker tells a story or observes something
Speaker
Ex. shown through the form of a poem
The narrator of a story. The voice of the poem,may be the voice of the poet or another person or character. Reflects on topic and reveals the poems theme.
Theme
Ex. the fleeting nature of time
Central idea that a poem explores.
Tone
Ex. sincere, sarcastic, humorous, tragic, cheerful, hopeful, or informal
Mood the poem creates. Playful,angry,melancholy.
Lyric poem
Short like a song
Ode
Two or more stanzas
Haiku
Very short poem. Three lines. Nature.
Sonnet
Fourteen lines.first eight lines develop one idea, last six question that idea.
Ballad
Stanzas of two to four lines. Refrains,repeats.
Free verse
Does not follow any rules of rhythm or rhyme
