Poetry Terms

An ___________ is a composition usually in verse in which sets of letters (as the initial or final letters of the lines) taken in order form a word or phrase or a regular sequence of letters of the alphabet.

• acrostic

• caesura

• diona

• tanaga

___________ is a highly imagistic, and it is written in condensed language, stylized syntax, and figures of speech not found in ordinary communication.

• drama

• non-fiction

• poetry

• prose

The ___________ is the central idea or message in a poem or in any other work of literature.

• goal

• mood

• theme

• tone

The ___________ is the attitude a writer takes towards a subject.

• diction

• mask

• mood

• tone

The ___________ refers to the emotional response of the reader to a work.

• diction

• mood

• sentimentality

• voice

The ___________ is a word people use to talk about the way poems talk to the reader.

• figure of speech

• rhythm

• tone

• voice

A ___________ is a group of lines that form a unit of poetry.

• enjambment

• line break

• meter

• stanza

___________ refers to the pattern or beat of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

• enjambment

• meter

• rhythm

• sound

A ___________ is a language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meanings of the words.

• abstract

• cliche

• figures of speech

• tanaga

___________ is a repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry.

• caesura

• free verse

• rhyme

• sonnet