The Basics
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What is the method of organizing a poem’s rhythm into a specific formal pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and number of syllables per line
What is Meter
100
Poetic Technique, used to show an exuberant exaggeration.
What is hyperbole
100
These fun phrases are normally examples of alliteration, "sally sells ea shells down by the sea shore."
What is Tongue Twisters
100
This states a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison. "You are what you eat"
What is metaphor
100
Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else, "Nature's first green is gold" is a metaphor showcasing what type of element of poetry
What is figurative language
200
A form of poetry that refrains from meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern
What is free verse
200
A form of speech which contains an expression of less strength than what would be expected.
What is understatement
200
This is the repetition of consonants within words in close proximity
What is alliteration
200
Using “like” or “as,' this poetic device normally compares one object or idea with another to suggest they are alike-
What is simile
200
The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work.
What is imagery
300
There was an old person of Fratton Who would go to church with his hat on. 'If I wake up,' he said, 'With a hat on my head, I will know that it hasn't been sat on.' is an example of...
What is a limerick poem
300
The Batman signal or what a bald eagle represents to America are examples of this…
What is symbol
300
This is the repetition of vowel-sounds within non-rhyming words
What is assonance
300
The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities
What is personification
300
The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization.
What is theme
400
Part 1: "a movement with uniform recurrence of a beat or accent." & Part 2:"a pattern of words that contain similar sounds." Normally partners in crime when it comes to poetry.
What is rhythm and rhyme
400
A statement with two parts which seem contradictory; examples: sad joy, a wise fool, the sound of silence, or Hamlet's saying, "I must be cruel only to be kind"
What is oxymoron
400
Similar to alliteration, this is the repetition of consonant sounds within words. The NK sound in "Think, Blank"
What is consonance
400
A reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event.
What is allusion
400
The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work
What is tone
500
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe: all mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe. is an excerpt from what poem by who?
What is Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
500
The use of words whose sound suggests the sense or action
What is onomatopoeia
500
Point out places where there is alliteration in this poem: There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.
What is Grass/Grows, burns/bright, before,begins
500
Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. They are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme.
What is stanza
500
Double JeoPoetry Part 1:"definition based on implication, or shared emotional association with a word" Part 2:"dictionary definition of a word"
What is Connotation and Denotation
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