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Question	Answer
Prose	Everyday, ordinary language.
Poetry	Condensed language.
Speaker	The voice heard in a poem.
Subject/Topic	What a poem is about in 1 or 2 words.
Theme	The comment about the subject the author is making.
Style	An authors unique way of writing.
Tone	An authors attitude about the subject he/she is writing.
Diction	An authors word choice.
Connotation	The emotional associations of a word.
Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word.
Details	They clarify, illuminate, explain, describe, expand and illustrate the main idea or theme.
Lyric Poem	Expresses the thoughts/feelings/ideas of the speaker.
Narrative Poem	A poem that tells a story.
Ballad	A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain.
Limerick	a five line, usually humorous poem that originated in Ireland. The rhyme scheme is aabba.
Epic	A long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation
Sonnet	Usually the subject is love. 14 line.
Haiku	A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally.
Dramatic Poem	a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends. The dramatic monologue is an example.
Structure	Refers to the form of a poem.
Stanza	A paragraph in poetry.
Refrain	a reoccurring line or group of lines.
Free Verse/ Free Form	poetry that has no regular rhyme or rhythm.
Traditional / fixed verse (form)	poetry that has rhythm and rhyme.
Couplet	two consecutive (one right after another) lines that rhyme.
Rhyme	a piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds.
Rhyme scheme	the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem.
Alliteration	the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words.
Onomatopoeia	words that mean sounds.
Assonance	the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, normally at the beginnings of words.
Meter	the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
Rhythm	The beat in the poem.
Simile	Using the words "like" or "as"
Metaphor / direct metaphor	a comparison between two things that DOES NOT use the words “like”, “as” or “than”.
Implied metaphor	comparing two things without outright stating the comparison.
Extended metaphor	a comparison that lasts throughout an entire poem.
Personification	giving human characteristics to something non-human.
Hyperbole	extreme exaggeration.
Imagery	words and phrases that appeal to the 5 senses.

Prose

Everyday, ordinary language.

Poetry

Condensed language.

Speaker

The voice heard in a poem.

Subject/Topic

What a poem is about in 1 or 2 words.

Theme

The comment about the subject the author is making.

Style

An authors unique way of writing.

Tone

An authors attitude about the subject he/she is writing.

Diction

An authors word choice.

Connotation

The emotional associations of a word.

Denotation

The dictionary definition of a word.

Details

They clarify, illuminate, explain, describe, expand and illustrate the main idea or theme.

Lyric Poem

Expresses the thoughts/feelings/ideas of the speaker.

Narrative Poem

A poem that tells a story.

Ballad

A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain.

Limerick

a five line, usually humorous poem that originated in Ireland. The rhyme scheme is aabba.

Epic

A long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation

Sonnet

Usually the subject is love. 14 line.

Haiku

A Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally.

Dramatic Poem

a poem which employs a dramatic form or some element or elements of dramatic techniques as a means of achieving poetic ends. The dramatic monologue is an example.

Structure

Refers to the form of a poem.

Stanza

A paragraph in poetry.

Refrain

a reoccurring line or group of lines.

Free Verse/ Free Form

poetry that has no regular rhyme or rhythm.

Traditional / fixed verse (form)

poetry that has rhythm and rhyme.

Couplet

two consecutive (one right after another) lines that rhyme.

Rhyme

a piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds.

Rhyme scheme

the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem.

Alliteration

the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words.

Onomatopoeia

words that mean sounds.

Assonance

the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, normally at the beginnings of words.

Meter

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.

Rhythm

The beat in the poem.

Simile

Using the words "like" or "as"

Metaphor / direct metaphor

a comparison between two things that DOES NOT use the words “like”, “as” or “than”.

Implied metaphor

comparing two things without outright stating the comparison.

Extended metaphor

a comparison that lasts throughout an entire poem.

Personification

giving human characteristics to something non-human.

Hyperbole

extreme exaggeration.

Imagery

words and phrases that appeal to the 5 senses.

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