Vocabulary
A group of words in a poems.
What is a LINE?
The charactistics of this poem type is:
-3 unrhymed lines
-syllable count 5/7/5
-about nature
-Japanese form of poetry
What is Haiku?
Comparing 2 unlike objects using "like" or "as".
What is SIMILE?
This type of poem was made famous by the poet Edward Leer.
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard.
What is LIMERICK?
Believing that his father would be coming home was just fishing in the air.
What is IMPOSSIBLE; IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN?
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a STANZA?
This type of poem has 5 lines. The rhyme pattern is AABBA. It has a specific rhythm pattern. It is supposed to be funny or nonsensical.
What is LIMERICK?
Comparing 2 unlike objects without using "like" or "as".
What is METAPHOR?
The following line is an example of this:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is ALLITERATION?
I'll give you $100 when pigs fly.
What is NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN?
The pattern of similar sounds that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry. It is usually referred to by using letters of the alphabet. Examples:
AABBCC
ABAB
What is RHYME SCHEME?
This is a poem that is typically arranged in quatrains with the rhyme scheme ABAB. They are usually narrative, which means they tell a story. They began as folk songs and continue to be used today in modern music.
What is BALLAD?
Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman.
The sun smiled down on us.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
"My pillow is a fluffy, white cloud for my head" shows this type of figurative language.
What is METAPHOR?
My pillow is a fluffy, white cloud for my head.
What is SOFT, LIGHT?
A literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in verse form.
What is RHYTHM?
A literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythm and rhyme schemes, do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules, yet still provide artistic expression.
What is FREE VERSE?
A literary device that repeats a speech sound in a sequence of words that are close to each other. Typically uses consonant sounds at the beginning of a word to give stress to its syllable.
What is ALLITERATION?
The following line uses this type of figurative language:
The sky is crying.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
The sky is crying.
What is IT IS RAINING?
A literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer and more memorable.
What is REPETITION?
This type of poem is derived from the Italian word “sonetto,” which means a “little song” or small lyric. It has 14 lines, and is written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme, usually abab–cdcd–efef–gg.
What is a SONNET?
A set expression or a phrase comprising two or more words. The expression is not interpreted literally. The phrase is understood to mean something quite different from what individual words of the phrase would imply.
What is IDIOM?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
What is SONNET?
She let the cat out of the bag.
What is SHE TOLD THE SECRET?