Definitions
A comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.
What is metaphor?
The snow was like a blanket over the town.
What is a simile?
What is the name of a stanza with 3 lines in it?
What is Triplet?
I am shaped like a diamond.
What is a diamante?
Pronounced as one letter,/And written with three,/Two letters there are,/And two only in me./I'm double, I'm single,/I'm black, blue, and gray,/I'm read from both ends,/And the same either way./What am I?
What is a riddle?
The rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
What is alternating rhyme scheme?
A reference to a well-known person, place, or thing from literature or popular culture.
What is allusion?
The sun was a furnace.
What is a metaphor?
What rhyme scheme is this?
AA BB CC
What is couplet?
I have no rhyme scheme or syllable pattern.
What is free verse?
A world of dew,
And within every dewdrop
A world of struggle.
What is a haiku?
The unit of a meter.
What are feet?
Two ideas that appear contradictory are used together.
What is oxymoron?
The wind whistled throughout the night.
What three types of figurative language are in this sentence?
What are personification, alliteration, and onomatopoeia?
How many syllables are in each line of a Haiku?
What is 5, 7, 5 (17 total)?
I have five lines and my syllables are 2, 4, 6, 8, and 2.
What is cinquain?
smile
happy, warm
welcoming, inspiring, soothing
curve, lips, expression, emotion
disturbing, deterring, depressing
sad, unwelcome
frown
What is a diamante?
A four line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
Common expressions understood to have a different figurative and literal meaning.
What is idiom?
Cheetah fast, I shall run. A.) simile B.) metaphor C.) pun D) anastrophe
What is anastrophe?
She slept like she had just bitten a poisoned apple.
What two types of figurative language is this?
What is allusion (to Snow White)?
and Simile
What type of poem has 5 lines where lines 1,2, and 5 have 7-9 syllables and lines 3 & 4 have 5-6 syllables?
What is a limerick?
I tell a story, usually about love.
Zig-zagging down the road
Trying not to stray over the center line
Or hit a curb
Or break an axle
Or flatten a tire
Or wind up in the next surprise sinkhole.
Driving in Toledo is not a sport
For the timid or the sane or the under-insured.
What is free verse?
The rhyme scheme is AAAAAAA
What is monorhyme?
Descriptions of objects, people, and places that appeal to the five senses.
What is imagery?
The duck said to the waitress, "Put it on my bill." A.) simile B.) understatement C.) pun
What is a pun?
I was going to buy some new threads but I forgot my plastic.
What is synecdoche?
A roofing company that doesn't have a roof.
What is irony?
How are Limericks and Cinquains different? Provide specific reasons.
What is a cinquain?
A verse of 5 lines that do not rhyme.
Structure:
Line 1: 2 syllables
Line 2: 4 syllables
Line 3: 6 syllables
Line 4: 8 syllables
Limericks
A poem with five lines, fun/playful/silly
1st line usually begins with, “There once was a…”
Rhyme scheme of AABBA
Lines 1, 2, 5 should have 7-9 syllables
Lines 3 & 4 should have 5-6 syllables
I describe the subject without revealing the subject.
What is a riddle?
Half of what I say is meaningless
But I say it just to reach you, Julia
Julia, Julia, oceanchild, calls me
So I sing a song of love, Julia
Julia, seashell eyes, windy smile, calls me
So I sing a song of love, Julia
What is a ballad?
BONUS: What song is this from?
A grouping of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?