Unit 3 Poetry Study Guide

When you are explaining what the poem is about, you are explaining its

• figurative language
• connotation
• denotation
• meaning

Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.

• closed form
• free verse
• half form
• imagery

The time and place of the action

• mood
• setting
• tone
• characterization

A group of lines in a poem. These lines often function like paragraphs. Each group of lines states and develops a single main idea.

• lines
• paragraph
• stanza
• introduction

The use of words whose sounds echo their sense. “Pop.” “Pow.”

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• Option 3
• metaphor

A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, or than.

• simile
• personification
• metaphor
• symbol

When the author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the character’s private thoughts and feelings, by revealing the characters effect on other people (showing how other characters feel or behave toward the character), or by showing the character in action - common in modern literature

• irony
• indirect characterization
• direct characterization
• tone

A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. “If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times....”

• simile
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

An atmosphere created by a writer’s diction and the details selected.

• mood
• setting
• style
• tone

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.

• personification
• allusion
• imagery
• metaphor