Poetry quiz

Alliteration

constant sounds repeated at the beginning of words in close proximity

repeated at the beginnings of words

Allusion

• From the verb “allude,” which means “to refer to”

• A reference to someone or something famous.

A tunnel walled and overlaid

With dazzling crystal: we had read

Of rare Aladdin’s wondrous cave,

And to our own his name we gave.

analogy

• simile and metaphor 

• Comparison of two or more unlike things in order to show a similarity in their characteristics

Imagery

Hyperbole

• An intentional exaggeration or overstatement, often used for emphasis.

•  Litotes: Intentional understatement, used for humor or irony (Example- naming a slow moving person “Speedy”)

Onomatopeia

• Words that imitate the sound that they are naming

Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot!

Had they heard it?

The horse-hoofs ringing clear;

Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, in the distance?

Were they deaf that they did not hear?

Oxymoron

• Combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox, as in the word bittersweet or the phrase living death

Personification

• A nonliving thing given human of life-like qualities

• The cat and the fiddle,
  The cow jumped over the moon;
  The little dog laughed

Symbolism

• The use of a word or object which represents a deeper meaning than the words themselves

• It can be a material object or a written sign used to represent something invisible.

Poetry

a type of literature that expresses ideas and feelings, or tells a story in a specific form

(usually using lines and stanzas)

Form

the appearance of the words on the page

Line 

a group of words together on one line of the poem

Stanza

a group of lines arranged together

Rythm

The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem.

Rhythm can be created by using meter, rhymes, alliteration, and refrain.

Meter 

• A pattern of stressed (strong) and unstressed (weak) syllables

• Each unit or part of the pattern is called a “foot”

•Iambic  - unstressed, stressed

•Trochaic - stressed, unstressed

•Anapestic - unstressed, unstressed, stressed

•Dactylic - stressed, unstressed, unstressed

Rhyme 

Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.

• A word always rhymes with itself.

Rhyme Scheme

• a pattern of rhyming words or sounds (usually end rhyme, but not always).

• Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern. 

EX: place and space

End Rhyme 

• A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

• Hector the Collector

   Collected bits of string.

   Collected dolls with broken heads

   And rusty bells that would not ring.

Internal Rhyme

• A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.

•  Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December

Refrain

• A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza or verse, such as the chorus in a song.

• There lived a lady by the North Sea shore,

  Lay the bent to the bonny broom

  Two daughters were the babes she bore.

  Fa la la la la la la la.

  As one grew bright as is the sun,

  Lay the bent to the bonny broom

  So coal black grew the other one.

  Fa la la la la la la la.

Tone

• Used in poetry to convey feeling and emotion, and set the mood for the work. This can be done through word choice, the grammatical arrangement of words (syntax), imagery, or details that are included or omitted.

• This line immediately generates a story-telling atmosphere, just as it is with the phrase, "Once upon a time."  An audience is clearly implied.

Connotation:

an emotional or social association with a word, giving meaning beyond the literal definition

Denotation:

the specific, literal image, idea, concept, or object that a word or phrase refers to

Simile

• Comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

Metaphor

• Comparison of two unlike things where one word is used to designate the other (one is the other)

• Continues for several lines or possibly the entire length of a work