1. Poetry
Literature that uses concise, musical, and emotionally charged language. Poems are divided into lines and stanzas.

2. A group of lines of poetry that work together as a unit of meaning
Stanza
A group of lines of poetry that work together as a unit of meaning
Equivalent to a paragraph in a prose text

3. Free Form/Verse
A poem that does not have a regular pattern of rhyme or rhythm or a set number of lines per stanza. It attempts to capture the rhythm of ordinary speech.

4. Fixed Form
A poem that has a regular pattern of rhyme or rhythm or a set number of lines per stanza.

5. Speaker
Speaker- the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem. In most poems the speaker is not identified by name. When reading a poem, remember that the poet and the speaker are NOT the same.

6. Lyric Poem
A poem in which a single speaker expresses observations and feelings about a subject or experience.

7. simile
Simile – a comparison between two unlike things that uses like or as
My love is like a red, red rose

8. metaphor
Metaphor – a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another
Your mouth, a poppy

9. imagery
Imagery – specific, descriptive language that appeals to any of the five senses
A host of golden daffodils

10. theme
Theme – the central idea in a work of literature, the message or moral an author wishes to convey to the reader

11. The writer’s attitude toward his subject
Tone
The writer’s attitude toward his subject

12. Extended Metaphor
Extended Metaphor – An extended metaphor differs from a regular metaphor in that several comparisons are made. The comparisons are sustained throughout the entire poem.

13. Who is the speaker in this poem?

14. Tone
What is the tone of this poem?
Identify words and phrases that create the tone
Identify the place where the tone changes.

15. Siren

16. Femme Fatale

17. Sonnet
Sonnet p. 1019
Quatrain p. 1019
Couplet p. 1019

18. Rhyme
Rhyme p. 1017
Rhyme Scheme p. 1017
abab
cdcd
efef gg

19. rhyme Repetition of sounds at the ends of words
End rhyme comes at the ends of lines of poetry
Internal rhyme occurs within a line of poetry

20. Rhyme scheme A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
The pattern is indicated by using different letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme

21. Stanza p. 1019 Stanza A group of lines of poetry considered as a unit
Major divisions in a poem
How many stanzas are in this poem?

22. Who is the speaker in this poem?
Speaker p. 1019
Who is the speaker in this poem?

23. What is the tone of this poem?
Tone p. 1019
What is the tone of this poem?

24. One Perfect Rose
Lyric poem
Stanza
Symbol
Speaker
Rhyme Scheme

25. Refrain
Refrain p. 1017

26. Who is the speaker in this poem?
Speaker p. 1019
Who is the speaker in this poem?

27. What is the tone of this poem?
Tone p. 1019
What is the tone of this poem?

28. Giving Up Smoking
Speaker
Tone
Rhyme Scheme
Theme
Lyric poem

29. Valentine
Free verse p. 1010
Speaker
Tone

30. A Negro Love Song
Dialect
Speaker
Refrain
Call and Response

31. Ode al Secreto Amor
Imagery (Image) p. 1011
Paradox p. 1015
Metaphor

32. assonance The repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry
Fruit Loops

33. Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate sounds
snap, crackle, pop

34. simile
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as

35. mood The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
Also called atmosphere

36. literal & figurative language
Literal Meaning – using a term in its strictest, most concrete, sense; meaning exactly what you say
Figurative Meaning – using words in a nonliteral or unusual sense; meaning something beyond what you say
eye of a needle

37. Dramatic Monologue Poetry that incorporates the techniques of drama.
A poem or speech in which a fictional character addresses the listener.

38. alliteration
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
Cap’n Crunch