poetry review terms mood: the overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional feeling of a work imagery:...

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REVIEW TERMSREVIEW TERMS•Mood: The overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional feeling of a work

•Imagery: The use of concrete details that appeal to the five senses

•Symbol: Something concrete (such as an object) that stands for something abstract (such as a concept or an idea)

•Theme: The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work

•Tone: the writer’s attitude toward the subject of a literary work

•Style: the unique way a writer uses language

•Irony: when a writer means the opposite of what is said

•Ambiguity: uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language

The process of reading,

understanding, and analyzing poetry

What is happening on the surface of

a poem

The deeper, sometimes hidden, meaning of a poem

Factual, non-poetic language

Language that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect

A group or unit of lines in a

poem

Repeated lines in a poem or song

The rhythm of poetry

The actual dictionary definition of a word

The emotional or figurative connections attached to a

word

A writer’s choice of words

A writer’s right to bend/break the rules of writing in order to

achieve a specific effect or purpose

The regular form of written language

A reference to a historical figure, place, or event

The teams competed in a

David and Goliath struggle.

A direct comparison between two basically different things that is

introduced by the words “like” or “as”

My love is like a red, red rose.

An implied comparison between two basically different things that is not

introduced with the words “like” or “as”

His eyes were daggers that cut

right through me.

A great exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling

My backpack weighs a ton.

Human characteristics given to non-human animals, objects, or

ideas

The sun kissed the flowers.

A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

“Twinkle twinkle little star,How I wonder what you areUp above the world so high,Like a diamond in the sky.”

(AABB)

Poetry without a regular pattern of

meter (beat) or rhyme

The repetition of identical sounds at the ends of lines of poetry

“He clasps the crag with crooked hands

Close to the sun in lonely lands”

from “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson

The repetition of identical sounds within a line of poetry

“We three shall flee across the sea to Italy.”OR

“Hold infinity in the palm of your handAnd eternity in an hour.”

A slant rhyme or half rhyme occurs when the vowel sounds

are not quite identical

“And on that cheek and o’er that brow”

A mind at peace with all below”

A poem that tells a story

“Little Miss Moffat sat on a

tuffet...”

The repeating of a sound, word, phrase, or more in a given literary

work

“I sprang to the stirrup, and Jarvis, and he;I galloped, Derrick galloped, we galloped all

three”

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

“Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship”

The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different

consonant

“. . .that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.”

The repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel

sounds

“Wherever we go

Silence will fall like dews”

The use of words whose sounds suggest the sounds made by objects

or activities

“Blind eyes could blaze like

meteors”

Other examples:

buzz, hum, kiss

Other examples:

buzz, hum, kiss

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A fourteen-line poem, that is divided into three quatrains (rhyming four-line stanzas) and a concluding couplet (pair of rhyming lines)

Each quatrain makes a point or gives an example, and the couplet sums it all up.

A long lyric poem about a serious subject, written in a dignified style

A short poem that expresses a basic emotion