The beat and pace of a poem and is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

A series of lines grouped together in order to divide a poem. They look like little paragraphs.

Characters, settings, images, or other things that stand in for bigger ideas beyond their literal meaning.

The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, poem, or other literary work. It's the lesson or moral of the story.

Someone who is the voice of the poem. This is not to be confused with the author.

Refers to the attitude of a writer toward a subject that they are writing about.

Repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words.

An obvious and deliberate exaggeration (to emphasize something or for humorous purposes).

Assigning human qualities to something that is not human.

Words that sound like their meaning.

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

The idea or feeling that people associate with a word; a word's secondary meaning.

A word's dictionary definition

Refers to a word choice.

A term used in poetry to refer to lines that end without a punctuation and without completing a sentence or clause.

A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison

The repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas

The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words

A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than"

A phrase or an expression (sometimes called figure of speech) that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. EX. “It’s raining cats and dogs.”

The use of words that vividly describe a sound (the word mimics the sound) so that readers can clearly "hear" them is called...

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter

the pattern of rhyme in a poem or song. Usually it’s characterized by letters (ABAB or AABB, etc.)

A pair of lines in poetry that usually rhyme or have the same meter

a stanza of four lines, usually the lines alternate in rhyme (ABAB)

one repeating line in a poem

A very long narrative poem that tells of a hero’s deeds

A tribute to someone or something of great importance to the poet

A Japanese lyric poem having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables; traditionally the topic of nature or the seasons

A situation or statement in which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what was expected.

What does the first T stand for in TPCASTT?

What does the A stand for in TPCASTT?

Which of the following is NOT a Shift?

What is the definition of a cliche?

Does every poem have to rhyme?

Which of the following is an example of personification?

What does the second T stand for in TPCASTT?

What does the last T stand for in TPCASTT?

Literal means:

What are the red letters an example of?

The people along the sand (A)

All turn and look one way. (B)

They turn their back on the land. (A)

They look at the sea all day. (B)

As long as it takes to pass (C)

A ship keeps raising its hull; (C)

The wetter ground like glass (D)

Reflects a standing gull. (D)