Poetry structure
Genres
Sound Devices
Figurative Language - Definition
Potpourri
100

This is the name for one line of a poem

Verse

100

This very short Japanese nature poem is comprised of three lines containing a total of 17 syllables.  

Haiku

100

This is the sound device used when someone says the same thing over and over

Repetition

100

This type of figurative language makes a comparison of two unlike things by saying that one thing is a dissimilar object or thing

Metaphor

100

This is the product produced by the use of figurative language

Imagery

200

This is the name for one group of lines in a poem

Stanza

200

This humorous Irish poem focuses on some funny trait or situation of a particular person, who is usually from a particular place.

Limerick

200

This sound device uses words whose sounds imitate their meaning

Onomatopoeia

200

This type of figurative language makes a comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as, or than.

Simile

200

This type of rhyme is found at the end of a line

End Rhyme

300

When one identifies the pattern of sounds at the ends of lines of poetry, they have identified the _____  ______

Rhyme scheme

300

This type of poem has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure

Free Verse

300

This sound device is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in a series of words

Alliteration

300

This type of figurative language uses an exaggeration that cannot possibly be true and is not meant to be taken literally

Hyperbole

300

This type of rhyme occurs when the last syllables of words match exactly

Complete Rhyme

400

A poem is a poem because it focuses on this

The expression of feelings and ideas

400

This type of poem tells a story by focusing on the action rather than character development.

Ballad

400

This occurs when the sounds of the last syllables of words sound alike.

Rhyme

400

This type of figurative language gives human qualities to non-human things

Personification

400

This type of rhyme occurs when the end sounds of words mostly rhyme.

Partial Rhyme

500

FINAL JEOPARDY

To which desserts were Flynn and Blake compared?

A pudding (Flynn) and a cake (Blake)

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