Name That Term
Cat and Rat
What is rhyme?
A poem that whose first letters of each line spells the topic of the poem.
What is an acrostic poem?
What is an example of personification?
Any answer that gives human traits to something that is not human.
The use of extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
“I read that book a thousand times!”
What is a hyperbole?
Buzz!
What is onomatopoeia?
A poem where the words create an image related to the topic of the poem.
What is a concrete poem?
What is an example of a metaphor?
Any answer that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
Everytime he opened his mouth, his Pinocchio nose kept growing!
What is an allusion?
A reference to a well known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art
What is an allusion?
Wendy's joke sank like the Titanic.
What is allusion?
A poem that uses 6 words and focuses on a memory.
What is a 6-word memoir?
What is an example of an oxymoron?
Any pair of opposite words that have a different meaning.
A comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
The author of the poem
Who is a poet?
Splat!
What is onomatopoeia?
A three lined poem with the syllables 5-7-5
What is a haiku?
What is an example of allusion?
Anything that refers to a famous person, event, or thing.
When a person, place, thing or event can represent something else.
What is symbolism?
The appearance of the words on the page
What is the form?
She said it again, and again, and again.
What is repetition?
A poem that is in the shape of a diamond and changes to the opposite topic as it ends.
What is a diamante poem?
What is an example of imagery?
Anything that is a detailed description using the five senses.
A figure of speech that gives human qualities to something that is nonhuman.
What is personification?
A group of lines arranged together
What is a stanza?