Lesson 1.2: Poetry

Question 1

according to tomeldan, poetry is…

Answer 1

like a song, is an expression of a feeling, an insight a discovery

Question 2

accrdng to romero and de los reyes, poetry is…

Answer 2

a major genre of literature that uses a more concentrated style than other literary forms

Question 3

five things to have to remember about poetry

Answer 3

poetry is…
concentrated thought
kind of word-music
expresses all the senses
answers our demand for rhythm
observation plus imagination

Question 4

elements of poetry

Answer 4

sense
sound
structure

Question 5

sense

Answer 5

is revealed through the meaning of words, images and symbols.

Question 6

diction

Answer 6

denotative/ connotative meanings and symbols

Question 7

denotative

Answer 7

actual and literal meaning

Question 8

connotative

Answer 8

hidden meaning

Question 9

image and sense impression

Answer 9

sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, motion, and emotion

Question 10

apostrophe

Answer 10

direct address to someone absent, dead, or inanimate

Question 11

metonomy

Answer 11

substitute a word that closely relates to a person or a thing

Question 12

synecdoche

Answer 12

Uses a part to represent
the whole

Question 13

allusion

Answer 13

refers to any literary,
biblical, historical,
mythological, scientific

Question 14

antithesis

Answer 14

contrast of words or ideas

Question 15

paradox

Answer 15

Uses phrases or
statement that on
surface seems
contradictor, but makes
some kind of emotional
sense

Question 16

litotes

Answer 16

Makes a deliberate
understatement used to
affirm by negating its
opposite.

Question 17

oxymoron

Answer 17

Puts together in one
statement two
contradictory terms

Question 18

tone color

Answer 18

alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, repetition, anaphora

Question 19

rhythm

Answer 19

ordered recurrent alteration of strong and weak elements
in the flow of the sound and silence: duple, triple, running or
common rhyme

Question 20

meter

Answer 20

stress, duration, or number of syllables per line, fixed
metrical pattern, or a verse form: quantitative syllabic, accentual,
and accentual syllabic

Question 21

rhyme scheme

Answer 21

arrangement of rhymes in stanza or the
poem.

Question 22

true rhyme

Answer 22

occurs on the words. you can hear them

Question 23

internal rhyme

Answer 23

occurs within lines

Question 24

off rhyme or slant rhyme

Answer 24

almost sounds like

Question 25

structure

Answer 25

refers to (1) arrangement of words, and lines to fit together, (2)
the organization of the parts to form a whole.

Question 26

word order

Answer 26

natural and unnatural arrangement of words

Question 27

ellipsis

Answer 27

omitting some words for economy and effect

Question 28

punctuation

Answer 28

abundance or lack of punctuation marks

Question 29

shape

Answer 29

contextual and visual designs: jumps, omission of spaces,
capitalization, lower case.

Question 30

three types of poetry

Answer 30

descriptive- focuses on details. didactic
narrative- tells a story. epic ballad
lyric poem- expresses feelings and thoughts. ode. sonnet. dramatic, monolog