click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
poetry vocab
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Alliteration | The repetition of same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together |
Pattern | a combination of the organization of lines rhyme schemes, stanzas, rhythm, and meter |
Allusion | A reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture |
Personification | A figure of speech that gives an object or animal human features |
Context clues | Using words surrounding unknown words to determine their meaning |
Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that work together |
Rereading | Gives the reader more than one chance to make sense of challenging text |
Drawing conclusions | Use written cues to figure out something that is not directly stated |
Rhyme/Rhyme scheme | The repetition of vowel sounds in accented syllables and all succeeding syllables. The pattern of rhyme in a poem is called a rhyme scheme |
Free verse | Poetry that does not follow a pattern |
Haiku | Traditional Japanese poetry that has three lines with the first and last line consisting of five syllables and the second having seven syllables. |
Rhyme | A rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language |
Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration or overstatement |
Setting | the location of the poem |
Simile | a comparison using like or as |
Imagery | i method of using words that will make the reader "see" what the author writes |
Sonnet | The sonnet is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, which employ one of several rhyme schemes and adhere to a tightly structured thematic organization. |
Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. |
Stanza | a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. |
Speaker | a person who speaks. |
Meaning | what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: |
Summarizing | Summarizing teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. Teaching students to summarize improves their memory for what is read. |
Metaphor | a comparison that doesn't use like or as |
Symbols | a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g., the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation. |
Mood | a feeling the reader has |
Theme | the message of the story |
Onomatopoeia | the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
Tone | the feeling the author has |