Poetry Terms Review

What is the definition of symbolism?

• The use of patterns that indicate different meanings.

• The use of images or objects to represent ideas or qualities.

• Resembles a picture; in a way that is striking or interesting.

• Tone of voice that indicates specific emotion.

Define onomatopoeia

• To tear apart with violent force.

• An event; occurrence.

• Unrestrained; wild.

• A word that imitates the sound it represents.

Imagery is...

• emphasizes important ideas, adds emotional intensity, and creates musical quality.

• A word or phrase that emphasizes important ideas, adds emotional intensity, and creates a musical quality.

• descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the senses.

• Necessary or important.

What is personification?

• A figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human qualities.

• A descriptive or figurative language that appeals to the senses.

• Being only one of its kind.

• A difficult or awkward situation.

Repetition is defined as...

• a style of art that evokes emotion by idealizing subjects.

• major themes, features, or elements.

• the ability to attact and engage an audience's mind or emotions.

• words and phrases that emphasizes important ideas, adds emotional intensity, and creates a musical quality.

Speaker refers to

• the voice behind the poem.

• an event in which people read poems that they have written aloud for a group.

• an attempt to convince a reader to think or act in a particular way.

• a particular belief, conclusion, or point of view that a writer presents in an argument.

Define apostrophe

• beyond the limits of possible experience.

• a figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing.

• tone of voice that indicates specific emotions.

• range of colors used in a particular work.

Which is an example of a metaphor?

• My brothers shoes smell like garbage.

• Finding my keys is like finding a needle in a haystack.

• Busy as a bee.

• My sister is the devil.

Which of the following is an example of a simile?

• My brothers shoes smell like garbage.

• Finding my keys is like finding a needle in a haystack.

• Busy as a bee.

• My sister is the devil.

What is a sonnet?

• A group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit.

• A lyrical poem that consists of 14 lines that follow a specific rhyming pattern (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG).