Poetry Terms
What is the end rhyme for this stanza?
Under the trees light,
the fireflies take flight,
stars glimmer in the night,
forsake the day.
What is AAAB
poetic elements that feature unique sounds; sometimes they create a pattern
What are sound devices?
Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers is an example of
What is alliteration?
“I read that book a thousand times!”
What is a hyperbole?
The use of extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
Buzz!
What is onomatopoeia?
Rhyme at the end of two or more lines in a poem
What is end rhyme
Words or phrases that appeal to the senses are...
What is imagery?
That donut is the size of a tire.
What is hyperbole?
Don't worry about the math test; it's a piece of cake
What is an idiom?
Wendy walked while talking.
What is alliteration?
A poem that tells a story in verse
What is a narrative poem?
Yellow like the sun
What is simile?
A comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
The author of the poem
Who is a poet?
A reference to something well known such as literature, art, or mythology
What is allusion?
3 lines of poetry, with the syllables 5,7,5, usually about nature
What is a Haiku?
Heart = love
What is symbolism?
A literary device in which a person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself also adds meaning, or stands for something else
What is symbolism?
I am an angry bear is an example of this
What is a metaphor
She said it again, and again, and again.
What is repetition?
A feeling or atmostphere than an author or speaker creates for an audience.
What is mood?
The engine called to me with a raspy voice.
What is personification?
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?