Example
Definitions
Types of Poems
Poetic Devices
Rhyme schemes
100
painfully pleasant
What is an oxymoron?
100
A play on words for humorous effect.
What is a pun?
100
A poem that tells a story while having a certain rhyme scheme.
What is a ballad?
100
Giving an object or animal human like qualities
What is characterization?
100
a ballad has this rhyme scheme
What is a-b-c-b rhyme scheme?
200
I came in like a wrecking ball.
What is simile?
200
When an actor expresses his/her thoughts out loud to themselves that the audience can hear.
What is a soliloquy?
200
A poem that has 3 lines with different amount of syllables for each line.
What is a haiku?
200
Using the same sound multiple times in a row
What is alliteration?
200
a-b-c-d
What is no rhyme scheme?
300
For education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined
What is a couplet?
300
In a play, words spoken by an actor to the audience, but not supposed to be heard by the other characters in the play.
What is an aside?
300
An important fourteen line poem used by Shakespeare
What is Shakespearean Sonnet?
300
making a historical reference
What is allusion?
300
typically used in songs
What is a-b-a-b?
400
America is a melting pot.
What is a metaphor?
400
A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.
What is a paradox?
400
using an individual letter from a large word to create a line of poetry
What is acrostic?
400
the comparison of two things by explaining one to show how it is similar to the other
What is analogy?
400
He saved his dime. He waited his time. He couldn't wait for the days. To sit under the sun's rays.
What is a-a-b-b?
500
The flowers danced to the wind's tune.
What is personification?
500
A metaphor that is drawn out in multiple sentences in lines of a poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
500
two lines of poetry
What is a couplet?
500
the pausing or stopping within a line of poetry caused by needed punctuation
What is caesura?
500
Don't cry I sigh Wait for the tie And don't lie
What is a-a-a-a?
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