English poetry

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place or work of art

The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text

A story/ narrative in poetic form

The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text

The authors specific word choice

This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line

Poetry that doesn't rhyme or have a measurable meter

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things with out using connecting words (like and as)

The measured arrangement of sounds/ beats in a poem, including the poets placement of emphasis and number is syllables per line

A word that sounds like what it means

The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ____ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words (Like and as)

A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem

An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning

The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader

The attitude the poems narrator ( may or may not be the actual poet) takes toward a subject or character: serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn or objective

A single line of poetry

Stereo hearts metaphor

Stereo hearts simile

A red, red rose metaphor

A red, red rose simile

Sonnet 30 simile

Break even metaphor (kind of)

Breakeven exaggeration

Sonnet 30 exaggeration

Stereo hearts exaggeration

A red, red rose exaggeration

A guy loves a girl but is not sure if she loves him back.

He is trying to figure out how to tell her he loves and is scared because he was hurt before.

A guy loves a girl ALOT and will do all this crazy stuff for her but in the end they are being separated (he will come for her though)

A guy just recently got dumped and he is really hurting. He loved this girl and she cheated on him and he doesn't know what to do without her.

This guy passionately loves a girl who doesn't love him back. He continues to love her and pursue her, but she just grows more cold and distant.

A man is home alone and he here's a sound at his door/window.

He thinks it's his dead wife Lenore, but it's a bird. He then speaks to the bird who only replies "never more". At first her believes the bird is there to help him, but then he thinks the bird is the devil sent to destroy and take him. In the end the bird flies away with the mans soul in it leaving an empty house.

Two words have a similar sound, but don't really rhyme

Two ideas in one sentence that contradict one another and when examined reveal something unknown

Extreme exaggeration

A set of words inside one line that rhyme (middle word and last word)

A set of words from two different lines or stanzas that rhyme (last word and last word)

A man is struggling with why he is on this planet with all the other foolish people and what his purpose is (asks question and has an answer)

Who is the perspective of O captain! My captain! From

O captain! My captain! Symbol

O captain! My captain! Has two point of views, why?

Elegy for JFK there is a silence in the heavens, why?

What is a lesson learned from Elegy for JFK?

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