Emily Dickinson Poetic Terms and Vocabulary

The underlying message in a poem is the:

• theme

• scheme

• dashes

• meter

A group of lines makes up the "paragraphs" of a poem

• rhyme

• theme

• stanzas

• rhythm

Dickinson used ____ in a variety of ways, usually to denote interruptions or abrupt shifts in thought.

• periods

• dashes

• commas

• exclamation points

________is the occurrence of identical or similar sounds at the end of words.

• scheme

• simile

• Rhythm

• Rhyme scheme

Giving human qualities to an object, animal, idea or abstract concept is:

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

The basic unit of meter in the poem is called ______.

• tooth

• feet

• foot

• teeth

The patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables creates a _____.

• rythm

• rhythm

• rhyme

• sequence

_____ refers to the pattern of end rhyme in a poem

• Rhyme scheme

• Rhyme pattern

• Rhythm scheme

• Rhythm pattern

When the sounds are similar rather than the same, this is called____ ___.

• scheme rhyme

• end rhyme

• different rhyme

• slant rhyme

________ is a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity.