Poetry Test Study Guide

-Review your short story terms and other literary devices: diction, syntax, tone, mood, symbolism, connotation, enjambment, etc.

-Poetry terms and devices: meter (and how to count syllables to determine meter), rhyme scheme (using ABAB to show rhyme scheme), "poetics," the 3 major genres (narrative, dramatic, lyric) and some subgenres of poetry (like sonnets and stuff), etc.

-Know some of the terms we talked about for Wilfred Owen, ee cummings, Dickinson, and Kearney.

Diction-choice of words. Diction is often described as either informal or colloquial if it resembles every day speech, or as formal, if it is instead lofty, and personal, and dignified. Tone is largely determined through addiction.

Syntax- word order; the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences.

Tone- authors feelings. attitude, a literary work takes towards its subject, or what a character in the works, conveys, especially as revealed through diction.

Mood- readers feelings. Alsois the feeling or emotional response that a story evokes in the reader through elements like setting, imagery, tone, and word choice.

Symbolism- is when a person, object, setting, or action in a story represents a deeper meaning beyond its literal meaning.

Connotation- what is suggested by a word, apart from what it literarily means or how it is defined in the dictionary.

enjambment-Enjambment happens when a sentence or thought runs over from one line to the next, instead of stopping at the end of a line. It keeps the reader moving forward.