Terminology
Poem Themes
Meter and Rhythm
Sonnets
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This word means "departing from the literal use of words; metaphorical". 

What is figurative?

100

This poem talks about how death is fleeting using the personification of a chainsaw. 

What is "Out, Out--"?

100

This is what Shakespearean sonnets are written in. 

What is iambic pentameter?

100
Another name for Shakespearean sonnets.

What is Elizabethan? 

100

This is a paragraph of writing, with no pattern or rhythm, and no line division. 

What is prose?

200

The math test was a piece of cake.

What is an idiom?

200

The type of relationship portrayed in the song "Love the Way you Lie"

What is abusive/cyclical?

200

The syllables in this rhythm go unstressed, unstressed, stressed. 

What is anapestic?

200
The number of lines in a Shakespearean sonnet.

What is 14?

200

This is a five line poem with a syllabic pattern of 5, 7, 5. 

What is a haiku?

300

The literal meaning of a word.

What is denotation?
300

The number of people who attended Eleanor Rigby's funeral.

What is 0/1 (for Fr. McKenzie)?

300

There are three syllables per foot in these two rhythms. 

What is anapestic and dactylic?

300

The number of syllables in each line in a Shakespearean sonnet.

What is 10?

300

This is a piece of writing that follows a rhyme scheme and is divided into stanzas. 

What is poetry? 

400

A feeling that an idea or word has.

What is connotation?

400

Why the boy loses his hand in "Out, Out-".

What is he gets scared?

400

The syllabic pattern is stressed, unstressed. 

What is trochaic?

400

The number of syllables per foot in a Shakespearean sonnet.

What is 2?

400

An open form of poetry that does not use a fixed rhyme, metrical pattern, or musical constraint.

What is free verse?

500

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

What is alliteration?

500

The type of poetic device used in this line "I'm superman with the wind at his back, she's Lois Lane."

What is allusion?

500

What is our mnemonic device? 

What is "I touched a dog"

500

The rhyme and meter of a Shakespearean sonnet that has a pattern of unstressed, stressed.  

What is iambic pentameter?

500

This is a term for a word that compares two objects or ideas without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

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