poem chart

Question 1

narrative

Answer 1

speaker tells a story

Question 2

lyric

Answer 2

speakers thoughts feelings insights create a song unified impression

Question 3

imagery

Answer 3

language that appeals to the senses

Question 4

tanka

Answer 4

a five line unrhymed japanese form
first and third line have 5 syllables
second fourth and fifth have seven syllables

Question 5

sonnet

Answer 5

fourteen line form

shakespearean sonnet: three quatrains (groups of four lines) a couplet

Question 6

villanelle

Answer 6

a nineteen line form
five, three line stanzas
line one is repeated in lines six twelve and eighteen
line three repeated in lines nine fifteen and nineteen

Question 7

simile

Answer 7

comparison of unlike things using words like or as

Question 8

metaphor

Answer 8

one thing is spoken about as if it were something else

Question 9

personification

Answer 9

object animal or idea spoken as if it were a human

Question 10

alliteration

Answer 10

repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of nearby words

Question 11

assonance

Answer 11

repetition of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables

Question 12

consonance

Answer 12

repetition of constant sounds at the end of nearby stressed syllables

Question 13

onomatopoeia

Answer 13

words to imitate sounds

Question 14

tone

Answer 14

authors attitude toward the reader or toward the subject of the work

Question 15

mood

Answer 15

atmosphere, general unified feeling converter by the various details of a literary work