Poetry Vocabulary Part 1
This is an example of?
Poetry Vocabulary Part 2
Create your own!
Wild Cards!
100
The Verse, "The purple scarf is as attractive as a shopping bag," is an example of what literary element?
Simile
100
Sport and court, smother and another, sputtering and muttering
Rhyme
100
Resemblance of sound
Assonance
100
Create your own simile
100
What term best applies to this line: "The wind howled about my window that February night"?
Personification
200
What directly compares two unlike things without the use of a specific word of comparison?
A metaphor
200
To tutor two tooters to toot?
Alliteration
200
What is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse?
Meter
200
Create your own metaphor
200
What term would you choose when coming across this line: "The soft sound of the sea soothed my troubled soul"?
Alliteration
300
What is it called when writers give human or living qualities to nonliving things?
Personification
300
The earth was a slow-moving car
A Metaphor
300
The ordered pattern of rhymes is called?
Ryhme scheme
300
Create your own alliteration
300
This summer day is like sweet music" is an example of what term?
Simile
400
When an author uses language so vivid that it creates an image in your head.
Imagery
400
If I said it once, I said it a thousand times…
Hyperbole
400
The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.
Tone
400
Create your own hyperbole
400
The following are examples of this term: "boom" "buzz" "crunch". Do you know what term I am referring to?
Onomatopoeia
500
Repetition of beginning sounds, whether consonants or vowels.
Alliteration
500
The sea had climbed the mountain peaks, And shouted to the stars
Personification
500
A certain number of lines that form a division of a poem.
Stanza
500
Feelings conveyed in a poem
Mood
500
This term refers to the repeated rhythmic pattern found in the poem; the one William Shakespeare used when writing his sonnets is known as "iambic". Do you know this term?
Meter
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