Poem Structure
Sound Devices
Poem Types
Language Devices
Potpourri
100
The imaginary voice or character who is telling the poem. Might be a human, animal, narrator.
What is the speaker?
100
A word imitating its sound.
What is onomatopeia?
100
A five verse humorous poem.
What is a limerick?
100
Emotion the reader (you) feel inside when he or she reads a poem.
What is mood?
100
Comparison of two things NOT using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
A two verse stanza whose end words rhyme.
What is a couplet?
200
A fixed pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of fixed length to create rhythm.
What is rhythm?
200
Poetry without rules
What is free verse?
200
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
200
Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
300
One line of poetry.
What is a verse?
300
A regular pattern of rhyming words.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
300
The speaker’s voice, or feeling in a poem.
What is tone?
300
Comparison of two unlike things using LIKE or AS.
What is a simile?
400
A group of verses (lines) divided in a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
Repeating a sound, word, or phrase for emphasis.
What is repetition?
400
A songlike like poem that tells a story.
What is a ballad?
400
Using descriptive words to make pictures in the reader’s mind. Appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
400
Repeating vowel sounds in a phrase; can be anywhere in a word.
What is assonance?
500
A four verse stanza with a rhyming pattern.
What is a quatrain?
500
Sounds repeated at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
500
A three verse Japanese poem (usually about nature)
What is a haiku?
500
When one thing actually stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
500
Repeating consonant sounds in a phrase
What is consonance?
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