lyrical poems addressed to a particular person, thing, or abstract idea.
What is an ode?
100
A series of harsh, unpleasant sounds that helps to convey disorder.
What is cacophony?
100
the rhyming of two or more words in a single line
What is internal rhyme?
100
Clearly confused
Act naturally
What is an oxymoron?
100
deliberate and absurd exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
200
poetry spoken by a single voice expressing ideas and emotions.
What is lyric poetry?
200
the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words to create an effect
What is alliteration?
200
A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
200
the meaning the speaker or writer intends to convey is different from the literal meaning
What is irony?
200
stanzas of four lines.
What is a quatrain?
300
a form of poetry which does not rhyme
What is blank verse?
300
A series of musically pleasant sounds, conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to the language.
What is euphony?
300
The speaker in the poem revealed through the voice speaking in the poem.
What is persona?
300
the images evoked by the author’s descriptions to enhance the readers’ understanding
What is imagery?
300
A poppy
A dove
A black cat
What is a symbol?
400
poems that tell a story, and therefore the focus is on action and dialogue rather than the exploration of a theme.
What is ballad?
400
the sounds of the words used resemble their meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
400
a reflection of the attitude of the writer
What is tone?
400
a recurring theme, idea, image throughout a literary work
What is a motif?
400
We must honor those who sacrificed their lives in war.
Innocent people are the real sufferers in war.
What is a theme?
500
once a snowflake fell
on my brow and i loved
it so much and i kissed
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
i reached to love them all
and i squeezed them and they became
a spring rain and i stood perfectly
still and was a flower
What is an example of a free verse poem?
500
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree
(needs 2 devices to score 500)
What is a rhyming couplet
500
Stock markets just crash, now I’m just a bill
History don’t repeat itself, it rhymes, 1929, still
Write like Mark Twain, Jay Gatsby, I park things
Yellow cars, yellow gold…
What is an example of an allusion?
500
the emotion or feeling attached to a word; often can be described as positive or negative
What is connotation?
500
Name the Big 5.
What is audience/purpose/speaker, content/theme, tone/mood, stylistic devices, and structure.