Word Play
Structure
Figurative Language
Rhyme
This is an example of...
100
What is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words?
Alliteration
100
What are two lines of verse that form a stanza called?
Couplet
100
What compares two different things using “like” or “as”?
Simile
100
"Fall" and "Bawl" are an example of what kind of rhyme?
Perfect Rhyme
100
He did not like the odorless and colorless shape of water.
Imagery
200
What is rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds?
Slant Rhyme
200
What are lyrics that do not consistently rhyme or follow a pattern?
Free Verse
200
What is an exaggerated statement?
Hyperbole
200
What is the rhyme scheme? There once was a girl named Erin / At whom all the guys would be starin' / She was lean and lithe, / But bad poems she despised. / So I'm fearin' about how I'm farin'
AABBA
200
Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south
Hyperbole
300
What is another word for the literal definition of a word?
Denotation
300
What are four lines of verse that form a stanza called?
Quatrain
300
What gives an object human characteristics or qualities?
Personification
300
"Lame" and "Sane" is what kind of rhyme?
Slant Rhyme
300
The cat stalked her hands as they played.
Assonance
400
What is a feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning?
Connotation
400
What is a traditional form of Japanese poetry with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5?
Haiku
400
What compares two different things without using “like” or “as”?
Metaphor
400
What is the rhyme scheme? Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly. / Hold fast to dreams / For when dreams go / Life is a barren field / Frozen with snow.
ABCBADED
400
Rebels raised a white flag to negotiate.
Symbolism
500
What is the repetition of vowel sounds inside words in a poem?
Assonance
500
What is when a sentence continues to another line, interrupted by a line break, called?
Enjambment
500
What is the use of a symbol (word or image) to represent an idea?
Symbolism
500
What is the rhyme scheme? As soon as Fred gets out of bed, / his underwear goes on his head. / His mother laughs, "Don't put it there, / a head's no place for underwear!" / But near his ears, above his brains, / is where Fred's underwear remains.
AABBCC
500
She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show
Metaphor
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