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Poetry Terms
Question | Answer |
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Alliteration | The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. Ex: The sneaky, slippery snake. |
Allusion | A reference to someone or something that is known from history,literature,religion,politics,sports,science,or some other branch of culture. |
Context Clues | Using words surrounding unknown words to determine their meaning. |
Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that work together. |
Drawing Conclusions | Use written cues to figure out something that is not directly stated |
Free Verse | Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
Haiku | Presents a vivid picture and the poet's impression,sometimes with suggestions of spiritual insight. The traditional haiku is three lines long:the first time is five syllables,the second line is seven syllables, and the third line is five syllables. |
Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration,or overstatement, for effect. Ex: I could eat a thousand hamburgers right now |
Imagery | The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation or a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. |
Inferring | Giving a logical guess based on the facts or evidence presented using prior knowledge to help "read between the line." |
Irony | In general,it is the difference between the way somethings appears and what is actually true. |
Meaning | What is poem about? |
Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT the use of LIKE or AS. Ex: Education is a life raft in the ocean of America. |
Mood | The feeling created in the reader by the poem or story. |
Onomatopoeia | The use of a word whose sound imitates of suggests its meaning. Ex: Boom! Smash! Pow! Pssst! Ssshh! |
Pattern | A combination of the organization of lines,rhyme schemes,stanzas,rhythm, and meter. ( There are an innumerable variety of patterns in poetry.) |
Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings,thoughts,or attitudes. Ex: My computer stared at me, deciding if it wanted to cooperate. |
Rereading | Gives the reader more than one chance to make sense of challenging text |
Rhyme/Rhyme Scheme | The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables. The pattern of rhymes in a poem is called a rhyme scheme |
Rhythm | A rise and fall of voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language. |
Setting | The time and place of the action |
Simile | A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things,USING the words LIKE or AS. Ex: My shoes were like falcons, enabling my to fly across the basketball court. |
Sonnet | A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
Speaker | The imaginary voice assumed by the writer if the poem |
Stanza | A group of lines in a poem considered as a unit.Stanzas often function like paragraphs in prose. Each stanza states and develops a single main idea. |
Summarizing | Guide the reader to organize and restate info, usually in written form. |
Symbols | A person, place, thing, or event, that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself. Ex: The eagle is a bird, but it is also the symbol for American freedom,liberty and justice. |
Theme | The central message or insight into life revealed through the poem. |
Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, of the audience. |