Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
What is free verse?
100
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
100
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as."
What is simile?
100
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
What is symbol?
100
"Sara sold her soul so that she could sleep" is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
200
This is also referred to as "close rhyme" or "near rhyme."
What is slant rhyme?
200
A word that sounds like what it means.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
What is a stanza?
200
Love is like a battlefield is an example of this.
What is simile?
200
"A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm" is an example of this because it repeats consonant sounds within a chunk of text.
What is consonance?
300
This is when words at the end of the lines of poetry rhyme and form a clear pattern or scheme.
What is end rhyme?
300
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
What is allusion?
300
The attitude a poem's narrator takes toward a subject or character.
What is tone?
300
Ivan will try to light the fire is an example of this because it repeats vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
300
A single line of poetry is known as this.
What is verse?
400
This is where words within a line of poetry rhyme.
What is internal rhyme?
400
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.
What is theme?
400
The author's specific word choice.
What is diction?
400
"My heart's a stereo" is an example of this.
What is metaphor?
400
Serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, critical, bitter, nostalgic, solemn, objective, etc. are all words that could refer to the author's what?
What is tone?
500
Find the rhyme scheme of this stanza:
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ.
That's all for now so peace out.
What is aabbc?
500
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
What is enjambment.
500
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry creates this.
What is rhythm?
500
A story or narrative in poetic form is known as this.
What is ballad?
500
This is a specific pattern of meter that consists of two syllables per foot and five feet in a line.