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Alliteration is the repetition of __________ sounds, usually consonants, in neighboring words.
beginning
An allegory is a story with a second __________ hidden inside its literal one.
meaning
An allusion within a poem is a _____ to a work or an event, person, or place outside the world of the poem.
reference
Anaphora is repetition in which the same word or __________ is repeated, often at the beginning of lines.
phrase
Anastrophe is a deliberate __________ of the normal order of words.
inversion
Annotation refers to a reader’s written __________ on a poem.
comments
An anthology is a book of poems by different __________.
poets
Assonance involves the repetition of __________ sounds in neighboring words.
vowel
Cadence is a rhythmic pattern that’s based on the natural __________ and emphases in speech.
repetition
A caesura is a slight but definite __________ inside a line of a poem created by the rhythm of the language or a punctuation mark.
pause
A cliché is an expression that has been used so much it has lost its __________ or meaning.
freshness
Close form poetry is written to an established __________, e.g., a sonnet, limerick, or villanelle.
pattern
A collection is a book of poems by __________ poet.
one
Concrete refers to a real, tangible __________ or example of something.
detail
A couplet is a pair of lines, usually written in the same __________.
form
Connotation refers to the emotions and __________ that a word suggests beyond its literal meaning.
associations
The denotation of a word is its literal or __________ meaning.
dictionary
Diction is a poet’s __________ choices.
word
An elegy is a poem of __________ or praise for the dead.
mourning
An end-stopped line is when meaning and grammar pause at the end of a line: a line-break at a normal pause in speech, usually at a __________ mark.
punctuation
An enjambed line refers to when the meaning and grammar of a line continue from one line to the next with __________ pause.
no
An epigraph is a quotation placed at the __________ of a poem to make the poem more resonant.
beginning
Figurative language involves comparisons between unrelated things or ideas: metaphors, similes, personification, and hyperbole are all types of __________ language.
figurative
Free verse is poetry that doesn’t have a set rhythm, line length, or __________ scheme.
rhyme
The form of a poem refers to its __________; how it is built.
structure
Hyperbole is when a poet __________ on purpose for effect.
exaggerates
Imagery is a sensory response evoked in the mind of a reader by the __________ in a poem.
diction
Irony occurs when a poet says one thing but means __________.
something else
A line is a group of __________ in a row.
words
A line break is the most important point in a line of poetry: the pause or __________ at the end of a line.
breath
Literal language refers to the straightforward meanings of __________; the opposite of figurative language.
words
Lyric poetry consists of short poems (fewer than sixty lines) about personal __________ or feelings.
experiences
A metaphor is a comparison in which the poet writes about one thing as if it is something else: A = B, with the qualities of B __________ to A.
transferred
Open form is another term for __________ verse.
free
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two words that __________ each other.
contradict
Personification is a comparison that gives human qualities to an __________, animal, idea, or phenomenon.
object
The poet laureate is a title given to an outstanding Canadian poet by the __________ of Canada.
Parliament
A prose poem is a piece of writing that has poetic features—rhythm, imagery, compression—but doesn’t __________, conform to a set rhythm, or break into lines.
rhyme
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of __________ in a poem.
rhyming
Sensory diction involves language in a poem that evokes one of the __________ senses.
five
A simile is a kind of metaphor that uses like or as to __________ two things: A is like B.
compare
The speaker or persona is the voice that speaks the __________ of a poem, not necessarily the same person as the poet.
words
A stanza is a line or group of lines in a poem that’s separated from other lines by extra white __________.
space
A symbol is a thing or action that represents, in addition to itself, __________ else.
something
A tercet is a unit of __________ lines, usually written in the same form.
three
A theme is an idea about __________ that emerges from a poem.
life
Tone refers to the attitude of the speaker or poet toward the __________ of the poem or toward the reader.
subject
A tricolon is a rhythm, pattern, or emphasis used __________ times; a.k.a. 'the power of three.'
three
A turn in a poem is a point when its meaning moves in a new, significant __________, or its theme emerges.
direction
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