What is a word that sounds like to word or noise it stands for?
onomatopoeia
100
What is "six silly swans swam silently" an example of?
alliteration
100
What is poetic license?
the right of a poet to ignore the conventions of language, spelling, and grammar
100
What is the name for rhyming words that occur in the same line of a poem?
internal rhyme
100
What is a metaphor?
a direct comparison between two unlike things
200
What is the term for a regular pattern of beats and stresses?
meter
200
What are "zoom," "buzz," "bubble," and "pop" examples of?
onomatopoeia
200
What is the name for a poem with no set meter or rhyme?
free verse
200
What is the name for words like heaven and even that almost rhyme but not quite?
forced or near rhyme
200
What is a couplet?
a two-line stanza
300
What is a comparison between two things using like or as?
simile
300
What is "double, double, toil and trouble" an example of?
assonance
300
What is it called when a line of poetry is meant to flow into the next line with no stop?
enjambement
300
What is A-B-A-B-C an example of?
rhyme scheme
300
What is the repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in a line called?
assonance
400
What is it called when you give human characteristics to non-human things?
personification
400
What is "the fog came in on little cat feet" an example of?
personification
400
What is the name for a group of lines in a poem that relate to each other?
stanza
400
What type of rhyme do the lines I have a cat/he is fat have?
end rhyme
400
How many lines are in a quintet?
5
500
What is the repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a line of poetry called?
consonance
500
What is "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" an example of?
hyperbole
500
What is a stanza with four lines called?
quatrain
500
What is the rhyme scheme for the following poem:
Hickory dickory dock/
The mouse ran up the clock/
The clock struck one/
The mouse came down/
Hickory dickory dock
A-A-B-B-C
500
What is "It's raining cats and dogs" an example of?