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| The words you chose to use in poem that dictate a poems tone, sound, movement |
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| The objects, experience, places, abstractions you choose to put in a poem (not to be confused with the words that render them) |
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| Language that calls up the physical sensation, appealing at the level of any of the 5 senses. |
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| Description and scenes that defy logic and create visuals that bind dreams with reality causing affects that are read like hallucinations. |
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| THe linking of often disparate or unlikely objects, images words or scenes from one to another in the mind and in the poem; controlled jumps the poet makes and challenges the reader to make along with them. |
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| All the aspects and nuances of an object, experience, or place you choose to use to identify that object, experience, place, including five senses. |
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| Using a figure to stand in for an idea/abstract |
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| Explicit obvious comparison of two subjects using like or as; two unrelated objects |
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| Presenting saying one thing IS the other, or presenting one in terms of something else. Has vehicle/tenor of thing being represented. |
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| taking something inanimate and making it human like. |
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| Object that has acquired a specific meaning over time. I.e. rose = love |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”). |
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| Basic unit of language in a poem that does or does not conform to traditional grammar lines |
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| Punctuation.. hard stop at the end of a line |
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| the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. |
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| the visual aspects of the poem |
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| grouping of lines in a poem |
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| specific way words. phrases and clauses are placed together to make a sentence. |
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| End on an unstressed syllable |
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| End on a stressed syllable |
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| rhythmical pattern in a poem accented and unaccented syllables |
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| Scanning a poem analysis of the meter in a poem by organizing its line into feet |
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| basic unit of measurement of meter in a line |
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| syllable that receives more emphasis |
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| Syllable that receives less or no stress |
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| pause in the middle of the line |
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