Poetic Techniques
What is a rhyme scheme?
When words in the poem sound the same.
What is alliteration?
Saying the same first letter for each word.
What is a stanza?
A number of lines that divide a poem into sections.
What is a Haiku?
A poem about nature with three lines and five syllables.
What does this poem use?:
"Basketballs bounce from Baylor street to Beaches with baboons."
Alliteration.
What is a simile?
Comparing two things using "like" or "as".
What is a hyperbole?
Saying something that represents something else.
What is a rhyme?
When two or more words have the same sound.
What is a lyric?
A short poem that expresses feelings.
What type of poem is this?:
"The slippery snail
likes to eat Cheetos puffs
during the daytime."
Haiku.
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things NOT using "like" or "as".
What is white space?
Making something out of the words.
What is repetition?
The repeating of a word or phrase in a line or poem.
What is a limerick?
A verse of five lines.
What type of poem is this?:
Max and Pace like to eat Doritos and mountain dew while playing video games. They prefer to play Dying Light over Fortnite.
Free Verse.
What is personification?
Giving human qualities to non-human objects.
What is free verse?
Poetry that can just be a bunch of words.
What is a pun?
What is a elegy?
A poem that states sadness about a important person's death.
What does this poem use?:
"The rock could carry 15 humans and lift 15 weights."
Personification.
What is a onomatopoeia?
The use of words that imitates a sound of an object.
What is consonance?
The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry.
What is assonance?
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.
What is a sonnet?
A fourteen line poem that states a person's feelings.
What does this poem use?:
"Max and Pace climbed a mountain as high as the moon."
Simile.