Big Words
Rhyme Time
Word Plays
Think About It
Poetic Types
100
The use of words to imitate natural sounds, such as buzz or pop.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
100
One of two or more words that have the same of nearly identical meanings.
What is a synonym?
100
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
What is a stanza?
100
Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing.
What is prose?
200
The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.
What is alliteration?
200
A metrical foot or unit of measure that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic?
200
One of two or more words that have opposite meanings.
What is an antonym?
200
The attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character.
What is tone?
200
A Japanese form of poetry which consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables.
What is haiku?
300
A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human.
What is personification?
300
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
300
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles or than.
What is a simile?
300
A statement which seems to be a contradiction but reveals the truth.
What is a paradox?
300
A light or humorous verse form of five verses.
What is a limerick?
400
A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
Repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines.
What is a refrain?
400
A play on multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
400
A figure of speech in which an address is made to an absent person or a punctuation mark which is used to indicate the omission of letter(s).
What is an apostrophe?
400
A song that tells a story.
What is a ballad?
500
Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds.
What is assonance?
500
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
500
The use of words, phrases, symbols and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions.
What is figurative language?
500
The use of a person, place, thing or event that stands for itself and something beyond itself as well.
What is symbolism?
500
Fourteen line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.
What is a sonnet?
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