Poetic Terminology 1
Poetic Terminology 2
Poetic Terminology 3
Poetic Terminology 4
100
Language that uses our five senses.
What is Imagery.
100
BANG! BANG! POW! ZOOM!
What is Onomatopoeia.
100
He is as strong as an ox.
What is Simile.
100
I'm so hungry I could eat ten horses.
What is Hyperbole.
200
When an author says something that will happen later.
What is Foreshadowing.
200
Mary made me make muffins for mothers.
What is Alliteration.
200
As the wind does blow Across the trees, I see the Buds blooming in May
What is Haiku
200
a division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme.
What is Stanza
300
“Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.”
What is Allusion
300
There was an Old Man of Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket. His daughter, called Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
What is Limerick
300
I want to ask the authorities what is the big deal? Why do not they control the epidemic? It is eating up lives like a monster.”
What is Tone
300
Tyler trains tigers.
What is alliteration
400
That dude is like flash.
What is Simile
400
Time, chime, lime, dime, and pine.
What is Rhyme.
400
ZOOM! BANG! POW!
What is Onomatopoeia.
400
Time is money.
What is Metaphor
500
As deaf as a post.
What is Simile.
500
Megan is a chicken.
What is Metaphor.
500
Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.
What is Assonance.
500
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn…
What is Repetition.
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