A. Literary Terms and their definitions #1
B. Literary Terms and their definitions #2
C. types of poetry
D. examples of literary terms #1
E. examples of literary terms #2
100
comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
100
a word agreeing with another terminal sound?
What is rhyme?
100
a 3 line Japanese poem about nature
What is a Haiku?
100
moor and door... thigh and sky
What is rhyme?
100
crack! boom! tic-toc
What is onomatopoeia?
200
a comparison without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects
What is personification?
200
the words of the poem are written to create the shape of the theme
What is a concrete poem?
200
"as smooth as a baby's bottom"
What is a simile?
200
"the moon was a ghostly galleon"
What is a metaphor?
300

repetition of a consonant sound

What is consonance?

300
repetition of a vowel sound
What is assonance?
300
a poem that is free from normal language rules
What is freeverse?
300
a heart stands for love
What is symbolism?
300
the cow jumped over the moon; the dish ran away with the spoon
What is personification?
400

repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word

What is alliteration?

400
formation of a word by imitation of a sound made
What is onomatopoeia?
400
a poem with 14 lines of iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme

What is a Sonnet?

400
"he whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there..."
What is alliteration? (consonance)
400

"when I wake up, I think, I think of coffee in the mornings"

What is repetition?

500
the representation of something for something else
What is symbolism?
500
a passing or casual reference; incidental mention of something
What is allusion?
500
a poem made of 6 stanzas of 6 lines with a final tercet, that uses 6 endwords

What is a Sestina?

500

"a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse"

What is iambic pentameter?

500
"I lie by the night tide on my side"
What is assonance?
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