Poetic Elements
What do we call paragraphs in poetry?
What are stanzas
To give human qualities to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
A word that identifies a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
Shakespeare published 154 of these 14-line poems
What are sonnets
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
A word that shows an action?
What is a verb?
What form of poetry follows the 5/7/5 line form
What is haiku
When a poet uses words that sound like the sound they are representing, such as "sizzle" or "ring."
What is onomatopoeia ?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
What is the structure of free verse
What is there is no structure
The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds of several words within one line of poetry, as in "splashing horses stop in the silvery stream."
What is alliteration?
A piece of punctuation, not a period, that seperates two complete thoughts
Semi-colon ;
What is the purpose of a limerick
What is to be humorous/funny
The repetition of the vowel sounds inside several words within one line of poetry, as in "Go row the boat home."
What is assonance?
What does the acronym FANBOYS stand for (coordinating conjunctions)
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So