Poetry Flashcards
(25 cards)
Poem
Poet chooses and arranges words to create a strong feeling through meaning sound and rhythm
Lines
Rows of words do not always follow the rules
Stanzas
A group of lines set apart by spaces, fits into the overall structure of a poem
Rhyme/rhyme scheme
Same ending sound/abab sequence
Dog,fog, hog
Rhythm
The beat of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Steady clapping
Meter
Reoccurring pattern
Repetition
The repeating of words or lines in poetry, reinforce the meaning or theme unify a poem
Alliteration
Repetition of an initial constant sound
Baby, bay, blue
Simile
A comparison that uses like or as
The lake was as smooth as glass
Metaphor
A comparison that does not use like where
Mia remembers everything: her mind is a steel trap
Personification
The assigning of human qualities to a nonliving object
The sun smiled on our picnic
Symbolism
The use of an image or thing to stand for something else
Lindsay wore black to the funeral
Allusion
A reference to another work such as the Bible or mythology
It rains so much that I thought we would have to build an arc
Point of view
The position or outlook from which the speaker tells a story or observe something
Speaker
The narrator of a story, the voice of a poem
May be the voice of the poet or another person or character
Theme
Central idea that a poem explores
Tone
The mood the poem creates for the reader
Playful, angry, sad
Lyric poem
Short like a song
ODE
Two or more stanzas with similar structures
Haiku
Very short poem with 17 syllables and three lines
5– 7–5 syllable pattern
Sonnet
14 lines first eight lines develop one idea last six lines question that idea
Ballad
Stances of 2 to 4 lines and refrain that repeats: tells a story
Free verse
Does not follow any rules of rhythm or rhyme
Denotations
Dictionary definitions
Hideous and homely mean having an unpleasant appearance
