Poetry Terms
Genre
Figurative Language
Types of Poetry
Short Story/Novel Terms
100
The repitition of sounds at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
100
Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.
What is fiction?
100
Figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make direct comparisons between two unlike things in a story.
What is a simile?
100
A three line Japanese verse form in which the first and third lines each have five syllables, while the second line has seven syllables.
What is Haiku?
100
The time and place of action in a piece of writing.
What is the setting?
200
A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song.
What is the refrain?
200
A story composed orally and passed down from one person to another by word of mouth.
What is folklore?
200
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.
What is a metaphor?
200
A pair of consecutive rhyming lines in a poem.
What is a couplet?
200
A struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is conflict?
300
The use of a repetitive sound at the beginning of words in a line of poem.
What is alliteration?
300
A form of non-fiction in which the writer tells the story of his or her own life.
What is and autobiography?
300
Type of language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics.
What is peronification?
300
A short, highly musical poem that expresses the observations of a single speaker. (DAILY DOUBLE!)
What is Lyric Poem?
300
A perspective or vantage point from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
400
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
400
A story written to be performed.
What is a drama?
400
Language used to paint a vivid picture for the reader.
What is imagery?
400
A poem that uses a shape to suggest a shape.
What is a Concrete Poem?
400
A scene in a story that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past.
What is flashback?
500
A formal division of lines in a poem considered to be a unit.
What is a stanza?
500
A brief poem/story, usually with animal characters, that teaches a lesson or moral.
What is a fable?
500
The use of words to imitate sounds: crash, bang, buzz...
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
A story told in verse.
What is a Narrative Poem?
500
The author's use of clues to hint at what might have happened later in the story.
What is Foreshaddowing?
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