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Poetry Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. A metaphor | a direct comparizon of two unlike things My dad |
| 2. A simile | a comparizon of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as” Her face |
| 3. Personification | the giving of human qualities to an inanimate object The lamp jumped up and down with glee |
| 4. Onomatopoeia | a word or group of words that imitate the sound it’s describing Buzz….buzz went the bee |
| 5. A symbol | a concrete idea (object, person, place, etc.) that stands for an abstract one (love, freedom, democracy, etc.) Statue of Liberty represents freedom |
| 6. Hyperbole | the use of exaggeration; not a literal translation of the phrase; meant for effect I’m so hungry I could eat a horse. |
| 7. Analogy | a similarity between like features of two things, on which a compar |
| 9. Allegory | a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor Animal Farm - George Orwell Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lew |
| 10. Mood | the poem’s atmosphere the poet creates 11. Tone |
| 12. A rhyming couplet | two successive lines in poetry that rhyme |
| 13. End rhyme | rhyme that takes place at the end of lines, successive or not; th |
| 14. Internal rhyme | rhyme that takes place within a line of poetry |
| 15. Meter | the pattern of rhythm in a poem |
| 16. An iamb | one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable; used in sonnets |
| 17. Alliteration | repeated consonant sounds at the beginnings of words in the same phrase She shouted and shooed the sheep to the shelter. Here, the sound of the consonants 'sh' |
| 18. Assonance | repeated vowel sounds in words in the same phrase She sees sheep sleeping. In th |
| 19. Consonance | repeated consonant sounds within words in the same phrase I dropped the locket in the thick mud. |
| 20. Lyric poetry | poetry that iz relatively short and relates an emotion Your favorite song |
| 21. Narrative poetry | poetry that tells a story Casey at Bat by Thayer |
| 22. Ode | a form of poetry that iz in praize of, or dedicated to someone or something which captures the poet's interest or serves as an inspiration with a set rhyme scheme Ode to a Nightingale by Keats |
| 23. A sonnet | a poem that utilizes 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus |
| 24. Quatrain | four lined stanza; common in poetry |
| 25. Imagery | in poetry refers to the vizual sense an author |
| 26. Rhythm | in poetry refers to the “beat” an author |
| 27. Melody | in poetry refers to the auditory (hearing) sense an author |
| 28. Denotation | the dictionary definition or surface meaning of a word |
| 29. Connotation | the emotional associations that accompany a word |
| 30. Theme | author’s message of the work; sometimes |
| 31. Voice | the speaker of the poem |
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