Poetry Vocab.

Question 1

Narrative Poetry

Answer 1

Tells a story in verse.

Question 2

Lyric Poetry

Answer 2

Verse that focuses on the speaker’s personal thoughts and feelings, using musical language

Question 3

Speaker

Answer 3

The imaginary voice that a poet uses when writing a poem

Question 4

Rhythm

Answer 4

Refers to the pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in a poem

Question 5

Concrete Poem

Answer 5

A poem with a shape that suggests it’s subject

Question 6

Haiku

Answer 6

A 3 line Japanese verse form

Question 7

Limerick

Answer 7

A humorous, rhyming 5-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme

Question 8

Onomatopoeia

Answer 8

The use of words to imitate sounds

Question 9

Alliteration

Answer 9

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 10

Repetition

Answer 10

The use, more than once, of any element of language such as a sound, word, phrase, or sentence

Question 11

Refrain

Answer 11

A line or group of lines that is repeated at regular intervals

Question 12

Punctuation

Answer 12

The set of symbols that give specific directions to the reader, such as when to pause or stop

Question 13

Figurative language

Answer 13

Language that uses comparisons to help you to see or feel things in a new way

Question 14

Simile

Answer 14

Use like or as to make a direct comparison between unlike things

Question 15

Metaphor

Answer 15

Compares unlike things by describing one as if it were the other without using like or as

Question 16

Personification

Answer 16

Gives human characteristics to a nonhuman subject as if it were human

Question 17

Poetry

Answer 17

one of the three major types literature