Poetry Terms Word Scramble
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Poetry Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alliteration | repetition of the initial consonant sounds (peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers)**alliteration is a TYPE of consonance** |
| assonance | The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds |
| blank verse | Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse. |
| consonance | The repetition of similar consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words, as in lost and past or confess and dismiss. |
| denotation | the literal meaning of the word |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sounds they describe**boom**moo**cock a doodle do**whoosh |
| enjambment | The continuation of a complete idea (a sentence or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line or couplet without a pause.“I think that I shall never see/A poem as lovely as a tree.” |
| personification | giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| stanza | a division or unit of a poem (like a paragraph or chapter) |
| free verse | poetry without a regular rhyme pattern |
| connotation | figurative meaning of the word |
| diction | the selection of words in a literary work |
| rhythm | the beat of the poem |
| syntax | the order of the words in a sentence or line(think EE cummings-eddieandbill) |
| tone | attitude of the writer |
| iambic pentameter | •Ten syllables in each line•Five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables •The rhythm in each line sounds like: ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM |
| slant rhyme | half rhyme |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sounds |
Created by:
EMerrick
on 2010-05-26