Poetry 1
Poetry 2
Figurative Language 1
Figurative Language 2
Genre
100
poem that tells a story
What is a ballad?
100
Japanese form of poetry consisting of three lines
What is a haiku?
100
The word AS or LIKE is used to compare the two words
What is simile
100
The repetition of an initial consonant sound
What is alliteration
100
short story that teaches a moral lesson
What is fable
200
a pair of lines that usually rhyme
What is a couplet?
200
poems that tell a story
What is a narrative poem?
200
compares two things, but it does so more directly WITHOUT using "as" or "like."
What is metaphor
200
a play on words
What is pun
200
a type of newspaper article that expresses the author's opinions on certain topics.
What is editorial
300
traditionally written in response to the death of a person or group
What is a elegy?
300
a poem that focuses on one subject and finds an original way to express what is good and unique about it.
What is an Ode?
300
figure of speech in which nonliving objects are given human or living qualities.
What is personification
300
a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear side by side
What is oxymoron
300
an account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another person
What is biography
400
long poem narrating the heroic exploits of an individual in a way central to the beliefs and culture of the society.
What is an epic poem?
400
poetry written without regard to form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, or line breaks
What is free verse
400
a figure of speech in which the author uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect
What is hyperbole
400
a phrase of expression that means something different from what the words actually say
What is idiom
400
a story that is usually concerned with a real person, place, or other subject. It is an unverifiable story but is popularly accepted as historical.
What is legend?
500
A poem that expresses the poet feelings
What is lyric poem?
500
form of poetry written in fourteen lines and ending in a couplet
What is sonnet
500
words in which the sounds suggest the meanings
What is onomatopeoia
500
the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit
What is euphemism
500
literary work in which the writer tries to point out human vices or follies in order to scorn or ridicule them.
What is satire
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