Rhyme Scheme
Sound Devices
Figurative Lang.
Structure
Types of Poetry
100
The people along the sand
all turn and look one way
They turn their back on land
They look at the sea all day
What is ABAB rhyme scheme or Alternate Rhyme?
100
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
**Triple Points**
100
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
A pattern of words that contain similar sounds.
What is rhyme?
100
This is a specific type of lyric poem. A speaker mediates about death, usually as a tribute to someone who has recently died.
What is Elegy?
**Triple Points**
200
The time is out of joint, O cursed spite
That ever I was born to set it right!
What is AA rhyme scheme or couplet?
200
Hark the lark and harden to the barking of the dark
What is assonance?
200
A comparison that does NOT use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
**Double Points**
200
A group of lines in a poem. It is often called a verse.
What is a stanza?
200
This type of poem reflects the feeling of a single speaker and is often sung out loud.
What is a lyrical poem?
300
As we lay amidst colored leaves that autumn day,
Those sweet memories still so vivid in my mind;
Your handsome face, your softest lips that I would find
When pressed against my lips caused me to pray.
What is ABBA or Enclosed Rhyme?
**Double Points**
300
honk, beep, vroom, clang, zap, boing
What is onomatopoeia?
**Double Points**
300
A phrase with a string of words all beginning with the same consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
300
Where a line of poetry ends.
What is a line break?
**Double Points**
300
This type of poem often appears in dramatic plays. A speaker talks to her/himself.
What is a Soliloquy?
400
A dozen, a gross, and a score
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared and not a bit more.
What is the rhyme scheme is AABBA or a Limmerick?
400
I bake a cake next to the lake.
What is rhyme?
400
The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme.
What is assonance?
400
The rhythmic structure of a poem.
What is meter?
400
Poems that don't follow normal poetic structure. Often its visual appearance (words on the page) reflect the poem's topic.
What is concrete poetry?
500
Fog by Carl Sandburg
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
What is ABCDEF or free verse or free form?
500
Elements of literature and poetry that emphasize sound.
What is sound devices?
500
An extreme exaggeration.
What is an hyperbole?
500
A combination of stressed and unstressed syllables in a single line of poetry.
What is a foot?
500
A poem that highly praises something - usually a person, event, or an idea.
What is an ode?