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Poetry Unit
Quarter 3
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words”
(Edgar Allan Poe).
Literary Terms:
1.) Poetry: rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and
imagery that appeals to our emotions and imaginations
2.) Free Verse: poetry without regular rhythm or rhyme
3.) Stanza: a group of consecutive lines a poem that form a single unit like a
paragraph in prose
4.) Rhyme: the repetition of similar sounds that are close together in a
poem
5.) Rhyme Scheme: the pattern of end rhymes in a poem
6.) Meter: a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry that
provides a beat
7.) Lyric poem: a poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker
8.) Narrative poem: a poem that tells a story
9.) Characterization: the way a writer reveals the personality of a character
10.)
Point of View: through whose eyes the poem is told
11.)
Figures of Speech: symbolic language
12.)
Symbol: something that stands for or represents something else
13.)
Simile: a comparison that uses the word “like” or “as”
14.)
Metaphor: a comparison that does not use the word “like” or “as”
15.)
Onomatopoeia: words whose sound imitate their meaning (Ex.
Buzz, boom)
Assignment 1:
Write out one time each and study
Quiz: Friday: 2/28
Literary Terms Cont’d
16.)
Imagery: Language that appeals to the senses
17.)
Personification: giving human qualities to non-humans
18.)
Hyperbole: a huge exaggeration (Ex. Your room is a pig sty)
19.)
Refrain: a repeated sound, word, phrase, line or group of lines
20.)
Topic: the subject or what the poem is about
21.)
Tone: the feelings the author brings to the work and the attitude
toward the subject and the reader
22.)
Alliteration: words in a sequence with the same beginning sound
23.)
Theme: what is being said about the topic or the main idea
24.)
Speaker: the character or voice assumed by the writer
25.)
Repetition: us used to emphasize and important issue, to produce
unity, and/or to create a musical sound
26.)
Ballad: a narrative poem meant to be sung
27.)
Mood: the feeling the reader gets from the work
28.)
Sonnet: a 14 line lyric poem
29.)
Couplet: a pair of rhyming lines
30.)
Oxymoron: a combination of opposites (Ex Jumbo Shrimp)
31.)
Allusion: a reference to a famous person, place, thing, or event
32.)
Foreshadowing: a hint of what is to come
Assignment 2:
Write out one time each and study
Quiz: Friday: 3/7