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2017 Poetry Terms
Grade 8 list
| Question | Answer | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Alliteration | the repetition of initial or beginning consonant sounds | " I slurped my salty soup." |
| Allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | |
| Figurative Language | writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | " It's raining cats and dogs." |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration for effect | " I'm so hungry I could eat a horse." |
| Imagery | words or phrases that appeal to the five senses and create pictures in the reader's mind | |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else through comparison without using like or as. | When a poet refers to "the road of life." |
| Connotation | the emotional ideas we associate with a word, not its literal meaning | When we hear the word fib, it doesn't sound as bad as the word lie, even though they mean the same thing. |
| Denotation | the actual dictionary definition of a word | |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate sounds | Hiss, crash, buzz, jingle |
| Personification | a figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics | Referring to Father Time or Mother Earth or saying the "Sun smiled on us." |
| Refrain | a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song | |
| End Rhyme | The most traditional form of rhyme with rhyming words at the ends of lines of poetry | I think that I shall never see A thing as lovely as a tree |
| Rhyme Scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem, usually identified by the letters of the alphabet | |
| Tone | the author's attitude toward the subject and the speaker in a literary work | Tone can be humorous, angry, sarcastic, frantic, critical, etc |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem or song, considered as a unit | Poems are divided into stanzas, while prose is divided into paragraphs. |
| Simile | a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike subjects using like or as | "quiet as a mouse" |
| Symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else | The American flag symbolizes our freedom. |
| Theme | a central message or insight into life expressed in a literary work | Most people agree that the theme of the Spiderman Movies is "With great power, comes great responsibility." |
| Prose | the ordinary form of written language, not drama or poetry | Examples are novels, essays, magazine articles,and short stories |
| Speaker | the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of the poem, the character who tells the poem | |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning of words |
Created by:
Sharon Smolen
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