Poetry Terms
Figurative Language
Meter & Rhyme
Poets & Their Poems
Poems
100
Hyperbole
What is a figure of speech that uses a strong exaggeration?
100
Roaring like a prize shark
What is a simile?
100
A unit of unstressed, stressed syllables
What is an iamb?
100
Maya Angelou
What is "Woman Work"?
100
Haiku
What is a poem made of 3 lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5?
200
Allusion
What is a reference to another work of literature, person, or event?
200
Hope is the thing with feathers
What is a direct metaphor?
200
A unit of stressed, unstressed syllables
What is a trochee?
200
Alice Walker
What is "Women"?
200
A poem about a brooch and her mother's courage
What is "The Courage That My Mother Had"?
300
Couplet
What is a stanza consisting of two successive lines of poetry?
300
The fog comes in on little cat feet
What is animism?
300
I wandered lonely as a cloud
What is iambic tetrameter?
300
Naomi Shihab Nye
What is "Daily"?
300
A poem about the stages of life
What is "The Seven Ages of Man"?
400
Juxtaposition
What is a figure of speech that places two very unlike things next to each other to create a contrast?
400
The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee
What is personification?
400
Once upon a midnight dreary
What is trochaic tetrameter?
400
ee cummings
What is "In Just"?
400
A poem about the destructive forces of emotions
What is "Fire and Ice"?
500
Figurative Language
What is the writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things?
500
Storm, blow me from here With your fiercest wind
What is an apostrophe?
500
They have their exits and their entrances
What is iambic pentameter?
500
James Wright
What is "A Blessing"?
500
A poem about spring and the happiness of children
What is "In Just"?
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