Poetry Stuff
Poetry Stuff II
Poetic Devices
Words that Matter
Can you rhyme?
100

Same rhyme throughout.

Mono.

100

Every other line rhymes. 

Alternate. 

100

"Life is like a box of chocolates."

Simile. 

100

People who are treated as insignificant or peripheral.

Marginalized. 

100

A word that rhymes with: discrimination.

Nation; obligation; demonstration; etc. 

200

Formal capitalization...

Every line begins with a capital letter regardless of punctuation. 

200

Standard capitalization...

Capitalization follows standard punctuation rules. 

200

"OMG I for sure failed with like a 5%..."

Hyperbole. 

200

Discrimination that favors lighter skin tones.

Colorism. 

200

What equates to rhyming?

The repetition of the same sound in the final stressed syllable of a word. 

300

The poem's voice. 

The speaker. 

300

Synonym for "message"

Moral; takeaway; take-home.

300

"I'll stay staring silently at my sins from above."

Alliteration. 

300

The belief that gender is a binary, comprising of male and female. 

Genderism. 

300

Name of the unstressed vowel symbol: ə 

Schwa. 

400

How a poem is divided into rows/sentences.

Lines. 

400

How a poem is divided into paragraphs. 

Verses; stanzas. 

400

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

Onomatopoeia. 

400

Discrimination that favours able-bodied people.

Ableism. 

400

Identify the most stressed letter in the word: OCEAN.

O.

500

Ominous tone?

Something bad is going to happen. 

500

Tone that elicits pain and sadness. 

Sorrowful. 

500

"That last piece of cake is calling my name!"

Personification. 

500

A generalized belief about a particular category of people.

Stereotype. 

500

What does IPA stand for?

International Phonetic Alphabet. 

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