General Terms
Easy Poetry
"Mid" Terms
Somewhat Hard terms
Harder Terms
100

What is a grouping of lines separated from others in a poem.

What is a stanza?

100

What is a hint that suggests a future event?

What is foreshadowing?

100

What is the feeling an author evokes in his/her own work? 

What is the tone? 

100

What is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line?

What is meter? 
100

What is a figure of speech in which the sound of a word imitates its sense?

What is an onomatopoeia? 
200

What is a comparison that is made directly and states that something is something else? 

metaphor

200

What type of poem consists of taking someone else's words and blacking them out or rearranging and making new meaning? 

What is blackout/found poetry?

200

Jenna was scared. 

Was in this instance is which type of verb? 

What is a linking verb?

200

What are words and phrases that appeal to the reader's senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste?

What is imagery?

(Sensory Imagery specifically)

200

What type of poetry is directed towards a specific subject and often has a lyrical voice? 

What is an ode?

300

What is a figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person?

What is personification?

300

What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?

Rhyme
300

Where is the alliteration in this line? 

"I have seen roses damasked, red and white,"

What is "seen roses demasked" with the "s" repetitive "s" sound?

300

What is a pattern of rhymes developed throughout a poem?

What is rhyme scheme?

300

What is the time and place the story occurs?

What is the setting? 
400

Jimmy walked briskly to the store. 

Where is the verb? 

What is walked?

400

What is the message about life or human nature that the author wants to share?

What is theme?

400

What is a pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length.

What is a couplet?


400

What is the overall atmosphere or feeling that a writer creates for the reader?

What is mood?

400

An 8-line stanza is known as a/an what?

What is an octave?

500

What is a literary device that usually implies the opposite of what is meant?

What is irony?

500

What is a person, place, or thing that can be experienced with the senses?

Concrete Noun

500

What is a comparison made with “as” or “like” ?

Simile

500

What type of poetry is Japanese and includes a total of 31 syllables?

What is a Tanka?


500

Repeated consonant sounds is known as what? 

What is consonance?

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