EOG Terms
Type of Poetry "A"
Type of Poetry "B"
Poetic Elements "A"
Poetic Elements "B"
100
The general atmosphere of a selection, example: relaxed, tense, frightened.
What is Mood?
100
A poem with two rhyming lines.
What is a couplet?
100
when the form takes specific shape that relates to the poem, it is this type of poem.
What is concrete?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or words.
What is Alliteration?
100
Comparing two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
Type of writing, ex. Science Fiction
What is Genre?
200
Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm.
What is free verse?
200
A form of Japanese poetry in which 17 syllables are arranged in three lines of 5,7,5 syllables.
What is a Haiku?
200
A comparison of two things not using "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
200
The repetition of sounds at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
300
A central message, (not usually stated but implied)
What is Theme?
300
A short, humorous poem made up of five lines. It has the rhyme scheme of AABBA.
What is a limerick?
300
A stanza or poem consisting of four lines.
What is a quatrain?
300
The separation of lines in poetry, like paragraphs in a story.
What is a stanza?
300
Sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity.
What is repetition?
400
When what is expected isn't actually what happens.
What is Irony?
400
The structure created by the arrangement of words and lines on the page.
What is form?
400
It presents the personal thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.
What is Lyric Poetry?
400
Words that imitate sounds. "sound words".
What is Onomatopoeia?
400
The musical quality created by stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is rhythm?
500
Information based on what you have read; but not directly stated.
What is Inference?
500
Poetry that tells a story. It contains characters, setting, and plot.
What is narrative poetry?
500
It is a narrative poem that tells a story and was meant to be sung or recited.
What is a Ballad?
500
The repetition of vowel sounds within rhyming words.
What is a Assonance?
500
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
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