A. Literary Terms and their definitions #1
B. Literary Terms and their definitions #2
C. types of poetry
D. Name that Rhyme Scheme
E. examples of literary terms #2
100

a single row of words

What is a line?

100
a word agreeing with another terminal sound?
What is rhyme?
100
a 3 line Japanese poem about nature
What is a Haiku?
100

The sunlight fell in patches gold,

 To warm the earth so dark and old. 

A tiny sprout began to rise,

 To reach the blue and open skies.

What is AABB?

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

The hunter glides on wings of white,

 Across the sleeping lake.

 He disappears into the night, 

 Before the songbirds morning delight. 

What is a ABAA

200
"the moon was a ghostly galleon"
What is a metaphor?
300
repetition of a consonant sound
What is alliteration?
300

Group of lines in a poem?

What is a Stanza?

300
a poem that is free from normal language rules
What is freeverse?
300

The sand is cool and deep, 

The desert creatures creep, 

While all the flowers sleep,

 Under the silver moon.  

What is ABBC

300
the cow jumped over the moon; the dish ran away with the spoon
What is personification?
400
a great exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
400
formation of a word by imitation of a sound made
What is onomatopoeia?
400
a short, witty, humorous poem that has a rhyme pattern of AABBA
What is a limerick?
400

The thunder gives a final roar,

 The clouds begin to thin

The sun peeks through the grey. 

 It’s quiet at the door.  

What is ABCA

400
"I've told you a million times..."
What is a hyperbole?
500
the representation of something for something else
What is symbolism?
500

what is the rhythmic pattern at the end of each line?

What is Rhyme Scheme?

500
this type of poem is named after the French word for five because it is a 5 line poem
What is a cinquain?
500

Tick. 

Tock. 

The golden clock. 

The beating heart. 

The time to start.

What is ABBCC

500

What is the difference between a stanza and a paragraph?




a stanza is a group of lines in a poem and a paragraph is 5-7 sentences in a passage. 

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