What is the device?
She sells sea shells by the sea shore
What is alliteration?
This night, this night! Will forever be a mystery.
What is repetition?
A poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
What is a haiku?
The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza. They can be represented with letters
(ex. AABB or ABAB)
What is a rhyme scheme?
Simile
Your response must use like or as to compare two things / ideas.
She is like the sun so fair.
What is simile?
The zoo was amazing, especially the lizards and chimpanzees.
This is an open style of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern.
What is a free verse?
When words, items, or images represent an abstract idea or meaning.
What is symbolism?
Metaphor
Example must be a direct comparison between two dissimilar items.
Clouds are ships which sail the skies.
What is a metaphor?
Like King Arthur, he ruled with strength and wisdom.
What is allusion?
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, typically having ten syllables per line.
What is sonnet?
Words and phrases that help the reader visualize, or imagine what is happening in the text.
What is imagery?
Personification
Give human characteristics to a non-human item to compare the two
The trees danced in the wind.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
What is cacophony?
Poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter
What is a blank verse?
Two lines of poetry that rhyme. Can be found in the last two lines of an English or Shakespearean sonnet.
What is a couplet?
Alliteration
"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
What is assonance?
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."
What is an internal rhyme?
This type of lyric is written to mourn the passing of something or someone.
What is an elegy?
A line of poetry that is ten syllables in length. The syllables follow a pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one.
What is an iambic pentameter?
Juxaposition
Two (sometimes completely opposite) words are placed near one another, creating a comparison/contrast effect.