Literary Devices
Poetry
Poetry
Pot Pourri
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100
Language that creates pictures.
What is imagery?
100
Words with the same ending sound or chiming sound.
What is rhyme?
100
Poetry which doesn't rhyme or have a meter.
What is free verse?
100
A stanza with a rhyme scheme of aabb.
What is what is a couplet?
100
The voice in a story, telling the story.
What is a narrator?
200
Comparing two different things using like, as, than or resembles.
What is a simile?
200
Repetition of the same or similar consonant sound at the beginning of words which are close together.
What is alliteration?
200
The rhyming pattern of a stanza of poetry. (e.g. aabbc)
What is rhyme scheme?
200
A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated at intervals.
What is a refrain?
200
The dictionary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
300
A person, place, or thing that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.
What is a symbol?
300
Pairing of the last word in one line with the last word in another line.
What is end rhyme?
300
A stanza with the rhyme scheme of aabbcc?
What is a triplet?
300
The overall emotion created by a poem or work of literature (e.g. eerie, dreamy, depressing, mysterious).
What is the mood?
300
The feelings and ideas associated with a word (e.g. quiet vs. shut up)
What is connotation?
400
Comparing two different things directly, without using words such as like, as, than or resembles.
What is a metaphor?
400
A regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables.
What is meter?
400
The attitude of the writer toward the subject.
What is tone?
400
A kind of persuasion designed to keep one from thinking.
What is propaganda?
400
A special type of web site used to help you locate information (e.g. Google, Yahoo)
What is a search engine?
500
Speaking of something non-human as if it were human.
What is personification?
500
Words that rhyme within a line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
500
The lesson in a story or poem usually told at the end.
What is a moral?
500
Events that get in the way of the main character reaching his/her goal.
What are complications?
500
The place on a web site with basic information about the web site.
What is a home page?
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