Literary Terms For Ninth Grade Poetry

Front 1

Definition:
Same sound at the ends of two or more words
Antonym: free verse

Back 1

Example:
"...fly
...by."

Front 2

Time and place

Back 2

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood..."

Front 3

Lyric poem of 14 lines, often written in iambic pentameter

Back 3

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Shakespeare wrote poetry in this form.

Front 4

Definition: a person, place,
an activity, or object that
stands for something else

Back 4

The Liberty Bell and the Statue of Liberty stand for
freedom.

Front 5

Account of a person's life written by that person

Back 5

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the story of Maya Angelou's life.

Front 6

Pattern of end rhyme in a poem

Back 6

Example:
…kangaroo a
… hop b
… too a
…stop b

Front 7

Definition: a comparison that uses "like" or "as"

Back 7

“The Grass divides as with a Comb”

Front 8

Definition: a grouping of
two or more lines that is
repeated in a poem

Back 8

"The Road Not Taken" has four
_______.

Front 9

The chief character who opposes the main character in a narrative or drama.

Back 9

It can be a force of nature or an internal force within the main character

Front 10

A poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited.

Back 10

"The ________ of Tom Dooley"

Front 11

True account of a person's life told by someone else

Back 11

Carl Sandburg wrote a ______
of Abraham Lincoln.

Front 12

Struggle between opposing forces

Back 12

Involves forces that are external or internal to the main characters

Front 13

Literature in which plot and characters are developed through dialogue and action.

Back 13

Stage plays, radio plays, and movies are examples.

Front 14

A long narrative poem about a hero. It deals with concerns such as good and evil.

Back 14

The Odyssey

Front 15

Brief tale told to teach a lesson or illustrate a moral.

Back 15

Aesop's ________s

Front 16

A type of fiction that is very imaginative and has events, settings, or characters that are unrealistic or supernatural

Back 16

Example: The Lord of the Rings, with its setting in nonexistent worlds, magic, imaginary creatures, and supernatural powers

Front 17

Fiction that is set in the past

Back 17

May contain references to real people and events in the past

Front 18

A story that concerns some superhuman being or unlikely event that was once widely believed to be true

Back 18

Greek ______s were much of the basis for The Odyssey

Front 19

Main character or hero in a narative or drama

Back 19

Odysseus is the ______in The Odyssey.