Simile and Metaphor
Sound Devices
Figurative Language
Poetic Form
CHANCE
100
A comparison between two unlike things, using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The sound device formed by the repetition of the sounds at the ends of words.
What is rhyme?
100
This vocabulary word is used to create a mental picture, and appeals to the reader's five senses.
What is imagery?
100
This vocabulary word is the poetry equivalent of a "paragraph" - a grouping of lines that share the same main idea.
What is a stanza?
100
This vocabulary word is the repetition of the sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
200
The four linking words used in a metaphor comparison.
What are "is," "are," "was," and "were?"
200
BANG! BOOM! SIZZLE! HISS! are all examples of this kind of sound device.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
"The sweet, tangy taste of the apple filled my mouth as I crunched into the crisp fruit," is an example of imagery that appeals to THIS sense.
What is taste?
200
The small numbers to the left of the poem's text help you to keep track of this part of the poem.
What are lines?
200
Repeated lines or phrases in a poem.
What is repetition?
300
An example of this vocabulary word is, "The angry child was a tornado through the living room."
What is a metaphor?
300
The sentence, "Derek drank the delicious Diet Dew," is an example of this kind of sound device.
What is alliteration?
300
This vocabulary word gives human qualities or characteristics to nonhuman or inanimate objects or beings.
What is personification?
300
This sound device forms a pattern of sounds at the end of lines, which contributes to the form and structure of the poem.
What is rhyme (end rhyme?)
300
This process "sums up" the main idea of a piece of writing. We did this stanza-by-stanza to break the poems into "bite-sized" pieces.
What is summarizing?
400
The linking word in the sentence, "My best friend and I are like two peas in a pod."
What is the word "like?"
400
AABB, AXAXBXBX, and ABAB are all examples of this kind of sound device.
What is a rhyme scheme or rhyme pattern?
400
The part of speech that describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
400
Some poems, like this type of shape poem we completed with photocopies out of books, can create visual art.
What is a Found Poem?
400
This part of a simile goes inside of the triangle.
What is the linking word/verb?
500
The place where the two things being compared go on the triangle.
What are the top two corners?
500
An accent is placed on this syllable of the word "Macavity" in the following line: "Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity."
What is the second syllable?
500
The object being personified in the following sentence: "The wind shrieked and howled outside the log cabin."
What is the wind?
500
In a song, the repeated stanza (with a repeated melody) is called this.
What is the chorus/refrain?
500
This sentence is an example of this kind of language: "Miss Bass teaches language arts."
What is literal?
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