Poetry Terms 1
The repetition of INITIAL consonant sounds
Alliteration
This is a person from any District who is participating in the Hungers Games
What is a tribute?
This is where the nation's wealthiest citizens live and the name for the ruling government of Panem
What is the Capitol?
Fire
What is Katniss/District 12?
A pair of lines in poetry of a similar length that rhyme
A couplet
The use of a word that sounds like its meaning
Onomatopoeia
This is a large gold or silver horn-shaped cone filled with supplies and weapons
What is the Cornucopia?
This is the name of the new North America
What is Panem?
The Cannons
What is the death of a tribute?
A form of Japanese poetry that has a distinct pattern
Haiku
Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
Blank verse
This is a calling out of names from a bowl to play the deadly game
What is the reaping?
These three districts are known as the Career Districts.
What are Districts 1, 2 and 4?
Dandelions
What is hope/survival?
A poem that does not have a regular rhythm or rhyme
Free verse
The repetition of consonant sounds
Consonance
This food rationing is offered by the government of Panem to people in the districts. Children can earn more by adding their names into the reaping more times.
What is tessera?
This event was the start of the Hunger Games
What is the First Rebellion (The Dark Days)?
The Cornucopia
What are wealth, nourishment, and abundance?
Language with no rhythmical structure, natural flow of speech
Prose
The repetition of vowel sounds in words
Assonance
This is the term for someone who helps tributes while they are in the arena
What is a sponsor?
This is how Katniss's father died and is the industry for District 12
What is in a coal mining accident/coal mining
Mockingjay
What is defiance?
( “something of a slap in the face to the Capitol.” )
A four line stanza, with an alternating rhyme scheme
A quatrain