Understanding Poetry

Dactylic meter

Imagery includes sounds, textures, feel, odors, and sometimes even tastes.

Tone reveals the attitude toward the subject and sometimes the attitude of the persona or implied speaker.

<p>A simile is a directly expressed comparison between two dissimilar objects using words like, as, or as if.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Iambic meter</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Scanning a line of poetry involves identifying the metrical units and how many of them occur in the line.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The poet's personal life or the lives of those around him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An idea or feeling expressed in one line and continued into the next with little or no pause.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To intensify meaning and convey ideas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Repeating similar or corresponding sounds in a scheme.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Repetition for effect of initial vowels or consonants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Systematically stressing or accenting words and syllables through patterns.</p> Signup and view all the answers