Shel Silverstein
Gwendolyn Brooks
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Langston Hughes
100
A two line stanza.
What is a couplet?
100
When the ends of lines rhyme.
What is end rhyme?
100
How a writer feels about their topic.
What is tone?
100
How end rhyme is patterned; tracked by assigning letters of the alphabet to each end sound. Rhyming sounds get the same letter.
What is rhyme scheme?
100
A narrative poem that is supposed to be sung or spoken out loud. Usually in quatrains.
What is a ballad?
200
A common figure of speech. Cliched; not very original.
What is idiom?
200
A four line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
200
The sounds at the ends of words repeat.
What is rhyme?
200
How a reader feels after reading a text.
What is mood?
200
Language that isn't true in a literal sense.
What is figurative language?
300
Saying that two different things are the same thing; no comparative words.
What is a metaphor?
300
A drastic exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
300
A grouping of two or more lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
300
Poetry that tells a story, with characters, setting, and plot.
What is narrative poetry?
300
Ordinary spoken or written language.
What is prose?
400
Using a historical or literary event or idea to make a point; could also be out of pop culture.
What is allusion?
400
Rhymes inside a line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
400
The word represents the sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
What a poem can teach; the author's message/life lesson in the poem.
What is theme?
400
A few different words begin with the same sound.
What is alliteration?
500
Poetry that doesn't have regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme.
What is free verse?
500
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
500
Comparing two different things using comparative words, including like, as, and than.
What is simile?
500
A word's tone - has an emotional feeling, can be positive or negative.
What is connotation?
500
Giving human traits to something that is not human
What is personification?
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