What is a poem called that tells a story. An epic and ballad are included in this type of poetry.
100
Alliteration
What is a sound of poetry that uses repetition of consonant sounnd in words that are close together.
100
two times
What is the minimum number of times that a poem needs to be read?
100
simile
What is a figure of speech makes a comparison and uses words such as like, as, than, or resemble?
100
Flashback
What is it called when the action of a plot is interrupted to tell what happened at a earlier time.
200
Free Verse
What is poetry that has no regular rhythm or rhyme.
200
Rhyme
What is the sound of poetry is the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables that follows? Types of this sound of poetry are exact, slant and end.
200
semicolons and periods
What are two punctuation marks that you should stop at when reading poetry?
200
metaphor
What is a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is compared to another thing.
200
Foreshadowing
What is it called when clues are used to suggest events that will happen at a later date?
300
Lyric poems
What is a poem that expresses the speaker's feelings.
300
Repetition
What is the recurring of a sound, word, a phrase or a line which creates music, appeals to our emotions, and emphasizes important ideas.
300
comma
What punctuation mark should you pause at when you are reading poetry.
300
Personification
What is a figure of speech in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is taked about as if it were human or alive.
300
Imagery
What is language that appeals to the senses? This can create pictures in your mind by appealing to the sense of sight, and the other senses.
400
Elegy
What is a poem that mourns the loss of something.
400
Onomatopoeia
What is the use of words whose sounds echo their meaning.
400
Normal
In what tone of voice should poetry be read?
400
Hyperboles
What are exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
400
Verbal Irony
What is a contrast between what is said or written and what is meant. Ex. If you called someone who failed a math test and Einstein
500
Sonnet
What is a lyric poem that follows very strict rules and has 14 lives.
500
rhythm
What is the sound of poetry which refers to the rise and fall of our voices as we stress some sounds more strongly than others.
500
Dashes
What punctuation indicates a change in thought?
500
Idiom
What is a figure of speech that uses the construction of words or a phrase that means something different than what the words are literally saying. Ex. A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush: