Poetry Test Review #2

device not found: "While in the wild wood I did lie,/ A child with a most knowing eye."

Refers to rhyming words that are at the end of lines.

She slept on the sooty hearth each night/ and walked around looking like Al Jolson.

A poem consisting of four lines or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit.

"All I was brooding upon has taken wing"

A single metrical unit of poetry is called a _________.

"And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries," (note bold)

"No one's smile was more enameled,/No one's style was more untrammeled," (note bold)

The associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase.

From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;/For thy sweet love remembers such wealth ...,

"That little time with lyre and rhyme"

An eight-line poem, or an eight-line unit in a longer poem.

Identify device: If you will tell me why the fen/ appears impassable, I then.

Person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more.

Fourteen-lines: an octave, asks a question/poses a problem & a sestet,answers question/problem.

Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry or within consecutive lines.

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Reference to someone/something known from history, literature, religion...outside the poem

A night made hoary with the swarm/ And whirl-dance of the blinding storm.

The insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.

A word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated several times in a poem.

Three four-line units, concludes with a couplet. Typical rhyme scheme is abab,cdcd, efef, gg.

Discrepancy between appearance/reality:In poetry, the speaker says one thing but means another.

The analysis of a poem to determine its meter and rhyme scheme.

Language that evokes a picture or a concrete sensation. Language that appeals to the senses.