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Poetry in Motion 1
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Terms Poetry in Motion 2
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the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a line of poetry...
What is Alliteration
100
The car is as fast as greased lightning, He's got tons of video games, and You could have knocked me over with a feather, are examples of what?
Hyperbole
100
literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem. (hint: two conflicting ideas)
What is Irony
100
the repetition of a VOWEL sound within two or more words in close proximity
What is Assonance
100
On a starry winter night in Portugal, Where the ocean kissed the southern shore, There a dream I never thought would come to pass, Came and went like time spent through an hourglass; what term is used here?
What is Imagery (use of the 5 senses)
200
a reference in one work of literature to a person. place or event in another work of literature, etc...
What is Allusion
200
The snow is a white blanket, America is a melting pot, and Her lovely voice was music to his ears, these are examples of what term?
Metaphor
200
a PHRASE in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for SPECIAL EFFECT, for example 'bittersweet', and 'living dead'
What is Oxymoron
200
two lines of poetry that rhyme at the end
What is a Couplet
200
these are examples of what term?: The name of Britain’s biggest dog was “Tiny”, You laugh at a person who slipped stepping on a banana peel and the next thing you know, you slipped too, and The butter is as soft as a marble piece.
What is Irony
300
unrhymed poetry that has a regular rhythm and line length, especially iambic pentameter
What is Blank Verse
300
Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came./ this stanza has what literary term?
What is Assonance the long "O" sound in THE MIDDLE of several words
300
comparison of two things that DO NOT use like or as
What is Metaphor
300
What term is used for when an over-exaggeration is made, or a description is made out of proportion?
What is Hyperbole
300
Strong and swing, Far and jar, Hard and ward, Borrow and sorrow; these are examples of what term? (HINT: do any sounds repeat?)
What is Consonance ebcause consonant sounds are repeating at the END of the words
400
the repetition of consonant sounds INDSIE words
What is Consonance
400
Come and clean your closet, The big bad bear attacked all the little bunnies in the forest, Shut the shutter before it makes you shudder, and Go and gather the green leaves in the lawn, are examples of what term?
What is Alliteration (repetition of a sound AT THE BEGINNING of several words
400
What is the name of a 4-line stanza?
Quatrain
400
poetry that does not have strict or fixed rhythmic pattern and DOES NOT rhyme
What is Free Verse
400
these are examples of what term “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” “This place is like a Garden of Eden.” “Hey! Guess who the new Newton of our school is?”
What is Allusion – “Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo, a passionate lover of Juliet, in “Romeo and Juliet”. –This is a biblical allusion to the “garden of God” in the Book of Genesis. – “Newton”, means a genius student, alludes to a famous scientist Isaac Newton.
500
language that is not meant to be understood literally (hint: Allusion, Imagery, and Onomatopoeia are examples of what?)
What is Figurative Language
500
plash, spray, sprinkle, squirt, drip, drizzle are examples of what term?
Onomatopoeia
500
an 8-lined stanza
What is an Octet
500
a series of descriptive words that use the 5 senses
What is Imagery
500
Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August is an example of what poetic device?
Alliteration
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