ENGLiSH(P0ETRY).
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- "I Dwell in Possibility"
- Emily Dickinson
- "Success is Counted Sweetest"
- Emily Dickinson
- assonance
- repition of similar vowel sounds, as in deep, beneath, and dreamless.
- "La Belle Dame San Merci"
- John Keats
- "Conscientious Objector"
- Edna St Vincent Millay
- speaker
- imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem
- "The Stolen Child"
- William Butler Yeats
- repition
- repeated words
- "Reapers"
- Jean Toomer
- atmosphere
- mood or the overall feeling that the story or poem conveys
- sonnet
- 14 line poem in iambic pentameter
- haiku
- unrhymed lyric poem of 3 lines of 5,7,5 syllables. usually has an image of nature
- rhyme
- words that have the same sounds
- aphorism
- brief memorable saying that expresses a basic truth
- "Meeting at NIght"
- Robert Browning
- "The Waking"
- Theodore Roethke
- alliteration
- repition of initial consonant sounds
- dramatic poem
- causes the illusion that the reader is actually witnessing a dramatic event
- "The Wind-tapped like a Tired Man"
- Emily Dickinson
- onomatopoeia
- use of words to imitate actual sounds, as in tap, bang, swish
- "Danny Deever"
- Rudyard Kipling
- imagery
- description of figurative language that creates word pictures
- tanka
- 5 unrhymed lines of 5,7,5,7 and 7 syllables
- villanelle
- lyric poem written in 3 line stanzas and ending in 4 line stanza
- universal theme
- message about life that can be understood by most cultures
- musical devices
- such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, meter, and repition and rhyme-gives poem a musical quality
- tone
- writers attitude toward his or her audience and subject
- "The Kraken"
- Alfred Lord Jennyson
- "After Apple Picking"
- Robert Frost
- narrative poem
- tells a story
- "The Weary Blues"
- Langston Hughes
- "Jazz Fantasia"
- Carl Sandburg
- lyric poem
- poem that expresses vivid thoughts and feelings
- "The Old Stoic"
- Emily Bronte
- "Mowing"
- Robert Frost
- meter
- formal organization of rhythms; a pattern of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables
- consonance
- repition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables
- "Sonnet 18"
- William Shakespeare