Poetry Structure
Poetic Devices
Types of Poems
Identify the Device
Analyzing Poetry
100
This is the pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse of line of poetry


Example: ABBA



Rhyme Scheme 
100
This device compares two things using like or as
Simile
100

This type of poem is a form of performative poetry in which participants offer works no longer than three minutes 


Slam Poetry 
100

Mary’s eyes were fireflies.

Metaphor 
100
What you should do when you are reading a poem and you don't recognize a word
Look the word up 
200
This is when two words "slightly" rhyme 
Slant Rhyme 
200

The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Onomatopoeia

200
This type of poem is created from circling words from a prose passage in order to create a new poem
Found Poem 
200

Time and tide wait for none.

Personifcation
200
What is the first step when you analyze poetry 
To read the poem
300
This is the overall movement of a poem
Rhythm
300

Takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds.

Assonance 
300
Fill in the blank, Conceit poems compare two ____ things.
Unalike
300

Zach sneezed when he heard jazz music.

Hint, think sound.

Consonance 
300
In this metaphor, what is the poet trying to say about life by comparing it to a highway


"Life is a highway"

He or she is saying that life is a long road that goes on and our, and man things occur along the way 
400
This is the term to refer to two rhyming words in the same line of a poem
Internal Rhyme
400

Indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance


Allusion
400
Sonnet Poems contain five feet, an equivalent of 10 syllables in a line. What is the name for this? 
Iambic Pentameter 
400

He was a real Romeo with the ladies



Allusion
400
What part of a poem can help you predict what the poem will be about?
The title 
500
This type of meter consists of this pattern of syllables: stressed/unstressed
Trochaic meter 
500
Name three devices that are examples of figurative language 
simile, metaphor, personification, 
500
This type of poem tells a story 
Narrative Poem
500

This love feel I, that feel no love in this

Oxymoron 
500
What is Emily Dickinson trying to say in this poem


If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.



My life would be more meaningful, more fulfilled if I help others and not just myself 
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