Poem Formatting
What is a group of lines arranged together within a poem.
What is a stanza?
Comparison using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
Giving human qualities to an animal or inanimate object.
What is personification?
The author of the poem.
What is poet?
Beat created by sounds of words.
What is rhythm?
A two lined stanza that usually rhymes and has the same meter.
What is a couplet?
A literary reference to something famous.
What is an allusion?
When one thing represents or stands for something else.
What is symbolism?
Beginning letter sound for 2 or more words in a row ex: "Maggie and Milly and Molly and May"
What is alliteration?
A pattern of rhyme.
What is a rhyme scheme?
A three lined stanza.
What is a triplet?
Direct comparison of two unlike things.
What is metaphor?
Exaggeration often used for emphasis.
What is a hyperbole?
The narrator of the poem
What is the speaker?
A six line stanza.
What is a sestet?
A four line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
"POW" is an example of what?
What is an onomatopoeia?
An understatement. The opposite of hyperbole.
What is a litotes?
Repeated consonant sounds anywhere in the words.
Ex. Mike likes his new bike.
What is consonance?
Two words in the same line that share the same ending vowel or consonant sounds.
What is internal rhyme?
An eight line stanza.
What is this an example of?
- He was as quiet as a mouse.
What is a simile?
What is this an example of?
- Her smile was a mile wide.
What is hyperbole?
Repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
Ex. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
What is assonance?
A play on words with multiple meanings.
Ex. It’s difficult for crabs to share because they are shellfish.
What is a pun?