Poetry Terms--11th Grade American Lit

Alliteration

• Repetition of vowel sounds

• a single line of poetry

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• figure of speech that makes a comparison using two connecting words like or as

Allusion

• a reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art

• unified group of lines in a poem

• poetry that does not rhyme

• Object or action that means more than it's literal meaning

Assonance

• Attitude of the poem's narrator

• The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels

• The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text

• A word that sounds like it means

Ballad

• Unified group of lines in a poem

• Central meaning of a poem or text

• Story/narrative in poetic form

• The author's specific word choice

Consonance

• Poetry that does not rhyme

• An object that means something more than its literal meaning

• The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels

• The repetition of vowels

Diction

• The author's specific word choice

• Word that sounds like what it means

• Measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem

• None of the above

Enjambment

• Occurs at the end of a line where one poetry line continues without pause or any punctuation into the next line

• Poetry that does not rhyme

• single line of poetry

• A figure of speech

Free Verse

• Central meaning of a poem or text

• Unified group of poetry lines

• Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter

• none of the above

Metaphor

• Lines in a poem

• Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as

• Figure of speech that compares two things using like or as

• Repetition of vowel sounds

meter

• The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem

• Object or action that means something more than it's literal meaning

• Recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry

• none of the above