2023-2024 POETRY

a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables: PO et ry (/ u u)

a four-line stanza

a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses: "Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind"

object, action or event that represents something beyond itself: baby buffalo in The Things They Carried

Auxiliary verbs that indicate possibility, ability, or obligation: must, might, will, should, would, etc.

a five-line stanza

the feeling, emotion, or mood experienced by the reader; the author creates through descriptive language.

metrical foot consisting of an unstressed and then a stressed syllable (U /) : da DUM

diction that is informal and everyday rather than elevated

repeated word/phrase that means something different each time it appears: To England will I steal, and there I'll steal.

type of personification where nature is represented as having human qualities or feelings; nature reflects human emotion

passing reference to another literary or historical work, figure or event; reference not explained (insider knowledge)

Rhyme type? Blue with all malice, like a madman's flash; And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. --Wilfred Owen

balance between opposing forces in a poem, usually referring to the use of language and imagery

The basic framework of a poem (stanza organization, rhyme, meter)

two opposite words/phrases/ideas placed parallel to each other: “A honey tongue, a heart of gall"

repetition of similar vowel sounds: Thou still unravished bride of quietness/Thou foster child of silence and slow time.

consonants that are produced by totally blocking air flow; creates a harsh effect (p, t, k, b, d, g)

First the air is blue and then it is bluer and then green and then black. -Adrienne Rich

I think I know enough of hate/To say that for destruction ice/Is also great And would suffice.

Rhyme type? "Six days of the week it soils/With its sickening poison/Just to pay a few bills!/that's out of proportion.

the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

"Taught me to hit, taught me to loosen/ . . . / To face the music. Teach me now to listen."

Choose the line that ends with a rising meter (moves from unstressed to stressed)

Device used when Dante describes hell as having "No light, but rather darkness visible"?

repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." In this line, the ? signals a/an ___, a break in the middle of a line/

pronoun that doesn’t specifically identify what it is referring to: some, someone, nothing, everyone, nothing, other

the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a poetic line, couplet, or stanza

A grammatical mood expressing a command: Burn Troy.

Your bags were packed. . . the vase you filled with shells, wrapped in tissue, your books boxed (omission of commas)

A poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader; poem written as a speech

lyric (song-like) poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style

point made by circumlocution, rather than directly: "in a family way" (euphemism), "ring-giver" or "sword-hate"(kenning)

Rhyme type (faces/houses): Coming with vivid faces/ From counter or desk among grey/ Eighteenth-century houses.

consonant sounds produced when air is blocked from leaving the body; produces harsh or abrupt effects: p, t, k, b, d, g

opposite of an iamb-- a metrical foot of two syllables (stressed and unstressed): DA dum

Choose the line with falling meter (metrical feet move from stressed to unstressed)

Poems that follow natural rhythms of speech: The fog comes/on little cat feet/it sits looking/over harbor and city . . .

a poetic unit of three lines, rhymed or unrhymed

a seemingly self-contradictory phrase or concept that illuminates a truth: Cowards die many times before their deaths.

Rhyme type? I remember it was in the black December/And each dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

poetic foot containing two equally stressed syllables (//): Break! Break! Break! On thy cold grey stones . .

the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words

diction that refers to general concepts

writer/speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed through diction/imagery/details/language/syntax

Which line contains synaesthesia?

substituting the name of one thing with another closely related to it: All the cameras have gone to other wars

hissing/hushing effects made by repetition of "s" sound: Sweet dreams of pleasant streams/ By happy silent moony beams

expression meant to be taken figuratively not literally: roll up your shirtsleeves, have a screw loose

“Cry, cry! Troy burns, or else let Helen go.” The first two metrical feet in this line are ____

special form of understatement; point made by affirming opposite: He's no fool; It's not uncommon; no pleasant journey

repetition of consonant sounds in words close together; vowel sounds differ: had/hid, wonder, wander, haven/heaven

question asked and then immediately answered: "What moral flows from this? Probably none."

combination of words with loud, harsh sounds often with explosive hard consonants like B, D, X, Q, Ch, C, T, P, K, & G.

relating to or in the form of conversation

an object, image, sound, or phrase that is repeated throughout prose or poetry to point toward the story's larger theme

Addressing someone/thing that can't answer: “Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me" -Mary Shelley

Use of language where the meaning is unclear or has two or more separate meanings