Hosted by Jean Moore
PoetryGenreTerms
Row 1, Col 1 stanza A group of lines set off visually from the other lines in a poem.
1,2 Prisoner of My Country Auto-biography
1,3 Flat character Character that possesses only one or two traits.
1,4 mood The atmosphere or overall feeling within a work.
2,1 Haiku Japanese poem of three lines using a syllable pattern.
2,2 Back There Science Fiction and Drama
2,3 denotation The strict, literal meaning of a word.
2,4 conflict A struggle between opposing forces.
3,1 Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within words.
3,2 The Enchanted Raisin Fantasy
3,3 setting The time and place in which the events of a narrative occur.
3,4 symbol An object, action, person or situation that suggests a meaning beyond its obvious meaning.
4,1 onomatopoeia Words used to imitate the sound of a thing.
4,2 The Creation of Music myth
4,3 plot A series of happenings in a literary work.
4,4 The three types of conflict Inner conflict, person vs. person, person vs. society
5,1 End rhyme The rhyming of words at the end of lines of poetry.
5,2 Paul Revere’s Ride Narrative poem
5,3 dialect Form of speech characteristic of a class or region.
5,4 parody A humorous imitation of serious writing.