Poetry Vocab and Review

Which of the following describes the LEFT BRAIN?

• logical, reality, concrete

• creative, emotions, abstract

Does poetry use LEFT BRAIN or RIGHT BRAIN?

• Left Brain

• Right Brain

• Both

Concrete means...

• refers to objects or events that are available to the senses. There is physical evidence or reference.

  
  

  Such as anything you can see, touch, smell, taste, or hear.

• refer to ideas or concepts; they have no physical or tangible form.

  
  Such as:

  • Emotions 

  • Ideas 

  • Beliefs

  • Morals

Abstract means...

• refer to ideas or concepts; they have no physical or tangible form.

  
  Such as:

  • Emotions 

  • Ideas 

  • Beliefs

  • Morals

• refers to objects or events that are available to the senses. There is physical evidence or reference.

  
  

  Such as anything you can see, touch, smell, taste, or hear.

What is DENOTATION?

• an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

• The dictionary definition of a word.

• words with similar meanings

• words with opposite meanings

What is CONNOTATION?

• an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. 

• The dictionary definition of a word. 

•  words with similar meanings

• words with opposite meanings

How do poets use language? (select all the following)

• Powerful and purposeful words

• Concrete and abstract ideas

• ONLY CONCRETE IDEAS

• ONLY ABSTRACT IDEAS

Which of the following is true? (select all correct answers)

• Denotation = left brain

• Connotation = right brain

• Denotation = right brain

• Connotation = left brain

TRUE OR FALSE: Repetition is the repeating of a sound, word, or phrase for emphasis.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Alliteration is...

• the repetition of identical vowel sounds within different words in close proximity.

• The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words.

• the repetition of identical consonant sounds within different words in close proximity.

• The repetition of words, phrases, or sentences throughout a single work.