poetry

As applied to poetry is the use of words to convey vivid, concrete sensory experiences.

• imagery

• simile

• poetry

• figuratively

Is the narrator of the poem. Imaginary voice.

• author

• poet

• narrator

• speaker

Words function exactly as defined. The car is blue. He caught the football.

• metaphor

• literally

• figuratively

• personification

Is a process of deduction that involves using existing information to make educated guesses about missing pieces of information.

• an inference

• idiom

• pun

• oxymoron

Figure out what it means.

• imagery

• literally

• simile

• figuratively

Is a series of lines grouped together to divide a poem. Are separated from other by line breaks

• lambic pentameter

• alliteration

• stanzas

• consonance

involves the repetition of the initial consonant sounds of a series of words , often consecutively. Is most easily explained by looking at few simple tongue twisters, such as, Peter Piper of She Sells Seashells.

• meter

• consonance

• Alliteration

• rhyme

Involves the repetition of sounds in a series, consecutive words. However, rather than repeating the initial sound, focuses on the repeated internal vowel sound.

• consonance

• assonance

• rhythm

• alliteration

It involves the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words.

• consonance

• asonance

• rhyme

• alliteration

Is like the beat or rhythm in a poem. Its a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that makes the poem sound musical and smooth.

• alliteration

• rhyme

• meter

• rhythm