Poetry Terms Set 2

Front 1

Allegory

Back 1

In the movie, Bruce Almighty, the character Grace represent the concept of God's Grace

Front 2

Alliteration

Back 2

Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously. -Singing In The Rain

Front 3

Blank Verse

Back 3

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
-William Shakespeare
NO RHYMING

Front 4

Characterization

Back 4

In Animal Farm, Napoleon's evil nature is slowly revealed by his tyrannical rule.

Front 5

Convention

Back 5

You know it's a fantasy book when you have mythical creatures that the protagonist is slaying.

Front 6

Dactyl

Back 6

HAP-il-y
CARB-o-nate
FUN-il-y

Front 7

Epigram

Back 7

"I am unable, yonder beggar cries,
To stand, or move; if he say true, he lies."
A Lame Begger by John Donne

Front 8

Falling meter

Back 8

Oh, WOE is me
Oh, LACK'a day

Front 9

Free Verse

Back 9

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
-13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Front 10

Hyperbole

Back 10

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!
-Common American Idiom

Front 11

Irony

Back 11

"My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met." (Despises Fortunato for making fun of him)
-Edgar Allen Poe's "Cast of Amontillado"

Front 12

Literal Language

Back 12

"The kettle was very heavy."The kettle was actually heavy.
-Jenny Nimmo's "Charlie Bone and the Beast"

Front 13

Octave

Back 13

He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.

The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.
(There are 8 lines)
-13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Front 14

Ode

Back 14

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness, -
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
From "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats

Front 15

Onomatopoeia

Back 15

MOOOOO
OINK, OINK
QUACK, QUACK

Front 16

Recognition

Back 16

In the movie "Without a Paddle" one of the characters gives up hope, and realizes that they are being chased by marijuana farmers in the wilderness without any clothes on.

Front 17

Style

Back 17

The dog died
vs.
The dog moved on from his life as an oppressed house pet to the big farm in the sky

Front 18

Tone

Back 18

"I cannot believe my eyes, how the world's filled with filth and lies. But it's plain to see evil inside of me, is on the rise" (depressed or hurt mood)
-Dr. Horrible

Front 19

Understatement

Back 19

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
*And would suffice.*

-http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_an_example_of_Understatement_in_poetry#ixzz1D29BvE5D

Front 20

Complication

Back 20

In Charlie Bone and the Beast, problems arise with Dagbert Endless, Asa Pike, Lord Grimwald, Grandma Bone, and all of Charlie's great aunt's. The overall conflict is called....