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Poem terms A-S
poem terms in ms. andersen's class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | A repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words following each other |
| Allusion | A reference to a statement, a person, a place or event in literature, history or culture |
| Connotation | feelings associated with or connected to a word |
| Free Verse | poetry without a required or set structure |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses. |
| Onomatopeia | use of words that sound like the action or thing they represent |
| Rhythm | Repetition of certain other patterns |
| Rhyme Scheme | a repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds followed |
| Refrain | A word or phrase that repeats through a poem |
| Stanza | a poetic paragraph |
| Couplet | two lines of verse, usally rhyming |
| Quatrain | four lines of verse each two lines rhyming with each other |
| Tone | Thea attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character |
| Simile | A figure of speech comparing two things using like or as |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech comparing 2 object that normally can't be seen as simular. Does not use like or as. |
| Personification | Giving human qualities to non human things |
| Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds at the end or within the word |
| Poetry | rhythmic, compressed language, that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination |
| Symbolism | A person, place, or thing that stands for something else |
| Speaker | The voice talking in a poem |
| theme | the main idea or message that the poem is expressing |
| mood | the feeling you get when you read a piece of poetry |
| repetition | the repeating of words, phrases, or sentences |
| concrete poem | words that are arranged to form a particular shape |
| rhyme ` | a repetition of the same sounds |
| end rhyme | rhyme that comes at the end of a line of verse |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that comes within a single line |
| Possibly most famous English writer of that time | Alfred Noyes |
| When was Emily Dickison born and when did she die | lived 1830-1886 |
| not famous at all | Emily Dickinson |
| known for rousing story telling and thumping rhythms | Alfred Noyes |
| when was Alfred Noyes born and when did he die | Born 1880 died 1958 |
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