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The first letters of the lines of this type of poem spell out the topic or title of the poem.

What is an acrostic poem?

100

Non-dramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which also has a plot

What is a narrative poem?

100
A figure of speech which makes a direct comparison of two unlike objects by identification or substitution.
What is a metaphor?
100
The use of an object to suggest another, hidden object or idea.
What is symbolism?
100
The use of the words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory description.
What is imagery?
200

A form of poetry with rhyming schemes that express personal and emotional feelings?.

What is lyric poetry?

200
A rigid, 14 line verse form with variable structure and rhyme scheme according to type.
What is a sonnet?
200
A direct comparison of two unlike objects using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
200

a reference to something the poet thinks everyone already knows.

What is an allusion?

200
Contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning (Can be verbal, dramatic, or situational).
What is irony?
300

Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.

What is free verse poetry?

300

 A poem of lament and praise and consolation, usually formal and about the death of a particular person. 

This type of poem can also mourn the passing of events or passions

What is an elegy ?

300

When two words in the same line having similar vowel sounds

What is a assonance?

300

When a few lines are repeated almost exactly at certain intervals.

What is refrain?

300

When a line in a poem has 3 feet

What is a trimeter?

400
A French verse form, strictly calculated to appear simple ans spontaneous; 5 tercets and a final quatrain, rhyming aba aba aba aba aba abaa; lines 1,6,12, and 18 are repeated, and 3,9,15,and 19 are refrain repeated.
What is a villanelle?
400
Humorous nonsense-verse in five anapestic lines rhyming aabba, a-lines being trimeter and b-lines dimeter.
What is a limerick?
400
Gross exaggeration for effect; overstatement.
What is a hyperbole?
400

Two or more words having almost the same ending sound

What is a near rhyme?

400

An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance.

What is symbol?

500
Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often depicting a delicate image
What is a haiku?
500

This type of poem takes the form/shape of its subject.

What is a Concrete poem?

500
A figure of speech in which animals and objects have human qualities.
What is personification?
500

Meter with 3 syllables in the order of "xx/" (or 2 unstressed and 1 stressed).

What is Anapest?

500

Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other.

What is an consonance?

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