Poetry Terms

Question 1

Tone

Answer 1

The writers attitude

Question 2

Mood

Answer 2

The atmosphere/feeling created in a reader

Question 3

Setting

Answer 3

The time and place of the story

Question 4

Imagery

Answer 4

Descriptive language that uses the 5 senses to create an image or feeling in the reader
Sight sound smell taste touch

Question 5

Narrative

Answer 5

Tells a story

Question 6

Lyric

Answer 6

Music

Question 7

Free verse

Answer 7

No rhythm or rhyme scheme

Question 8

Blank verse

Answer 8

No rhyme

Question 9

Haiku

Answer 9

Japanese poetry 5 7 5 syllables

Question 10

Sonnet

Answer 10

Old like Shakespeare 14 lines rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg iambic pentameter

Question 11

Stanza

Answer 11

Paragraph/body of writing

Question 12

Rhyme scheme

Answer 12

Abba

Question 13

Couplet

Answer 13

Rhymes at the end of sentences/lines

Question 14

Rhythm/iambic pentameter

Answer 14

Da dum 5x

Question 15

Rhyme

Answer 15

Cat hat flat

Question 16

Alliteration

Answer 16

Repetition of sounds (tongue twisters) the knights clattered and clashed

Question 17

Assonance

Answer 17

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 18

Consonance

Answer 18

Repetition of constant sounds

Question 19

End rhyme

Answer 19

Rhymes at the end

Question 20

Internal rhyme

Answer 20

Rhymes anywhere in the middle

Question 21

Onomatopoeia

Answer 21

Words that sounds represent boom bang pow

Question 22

Literal or denotation

Answer 22

Dictionary or direct meaning

Question 23

Figurative

Answer 23

Implied meaning- what you meant

Question 24

Metaphor

Answer 24

Compare 2 things

Question 25

Simile

Answer 25

Same as metaphor using as like or than

Question 26

Personification

Answer 26

Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects

Question 27

Hyperbole

Answer 27

Deliberate exaggeration