Terms
Comparisons
Rhyme and Rhythm
Poets
Picture this!
100
This means words whose ends sound the same, now you're really in the game!
What is rhyme?
100
These words are found in similes but not in metaphors.
What are like or as?
100
The beat or rhythm of a poem.
What is meter?
100
This poet wrote "Anabelle Lee" and "The Raven," typical of his dark style.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
100
Imagery appeals to this one of your five senses.
What is sight?
200
The device demonstrated in this line by Robert Frost: “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet”
What is alliteration?
200
This is one of these: David moves as slow as a turtle stuck in the mud.
What is a simile?
200
These types of syllables are said louder and harder than the others.
What is stressed?
200
This popular children's poet is famous for his anthologies "A Light in the Attic" and "Where the Sidewalk Ends"
Who is Shel Silverstein?
200
"The hot wings slapped Benny in the face with their flavor" This device gives human powers to something not human.
What is personification?
300
This type of language means exactly what it says.
What is literal?
300
"Marylou is a ray of sunshine" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
300
The name of a "paragraph" or group of lines in poetry.
What is a stanza?
300
Poets who write from this point of view use "I" or "me" in their poems.
What is first person?
300
The type of figurative language used here: "The woman was older than dinosaurs and had witnessed the birth of the sun."
What is hyperbole?
400
Poets and other creative writers use this type of language to give deeper meaning.
What is figurative?
400
"He was as tall as a skyscraper" is hyperbole and also this type of comparison.
What is a simile?
400
Two lines of poetry in their own stanza that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
400
This poet killed herself at a young age, but not before writing hundreds of poems, including "You're"
Who is Sylvia Plath?
400
An example would be "The fresh bread smelled like a field of sunny wheat; it had a hard, flaky crust but was soft, sweet, and pure white inside."
What are sensory details?
500
An expression like "bend over backwards" that does not mean exactly what it says.
What is an idiom?
500
Not figures of speech, these literally compare two things, like apples and oranges.
What are analogies?
500
The rhyme scheme of a poem whose 1st and 3rd lines rhyme, and whose 2nd and 4th lines rhyme.
What is ABAB?
500
Although most famous for his plays, this English poet is best known for his 14-line sonnets.
Who is William Shakespeare?
500
In the "Anecdote of the Jar," the jar is used as one of these to stand for civilization or humanity.
What is a symbol?
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