Sound Devices
If a poem repeats an entire line or group of lines, it's called this.
What is a refrain?
This device involves speaking directly to something that probably can't hear you... because it's not actually alive.
What is an apostrophe?
A four-line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
14 lines in iambic pentameter... one of the most popular poetic forms of all time!
What is a sonnet?
The whisper grew to a roar.
What is onomatopoeia?
This device involves repeating consonant sounds anywhere... could be at the beginning of a word, at the end, or in the middle!
What is consonance?
This device describes something as if it had human qualities or features.
What is personification?
A pair of consecutive rhyming lines... how romantic!
What is a couplet?
Poetry with no regular structure... no rules!
What is free verse?
"Wise guys."
What is rhyme?
The technique of repeating vowel sounds (even if the spelling is wildly different) is called this.
What is assonance?
Sometimes a metaphor just keeps on going... and going...
What is an extended metaphor?
The pattern and number of beats in a line of poetry is called this.
What is meter?
A poem written in praise of a specific subject.
What is an ode?
"Come out from behind those clouds, sun!"
What is apostrophe?
The technique of using words that end in deliberately similar -- but not quite identical! -- sounds.
What is slant rhyme?
This casual figure of speech uses part of an object to represent the whole thing... so all eyes up front!
What is synecdoche?
This is the term for all writing with deliberate line structure (including poetry and songs).
What is verse?
Rhyming quatrains with alternating meter.
What is a ballad?
Time waits for no one.
What is personification?
Poetic devices usually have this purpose.
What is emphasis?
This terms refer to the two components of any metaphor: the imagined comparison, and the literal subject.
What are the vehicle and the tenor?
These two techniques can break or de-emphasize the line structure of a poem, to make it sound more like prose.
What are enjambment and caesura?
A poem resembling a speech from a play... even though no such play exists!
What is a dramatic monologue?
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter.
What is alliteration, assonance, and consonance?