General
This is the type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged in specific ways to create an effect
What is "Poetry"?
The way a poem is laid out on the page.
What is "form"?
The light of a candle
Is transferred to another candle—
Spring twilight
What is a "Haiku"?
The repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is "rhyme"?
This is the language that helps a reader recreate, in his or her own mind, what the writer is describing.
What is "Imagery"?
This is the narrator-- and it may not be the poet!
What is the "Speaker"?
Groups of lines are called this.
What are "stanzas"?
This poem is in the shape of the subject or object of the poem.
What is a "concrete poem"?
The beat of the poem.
What is "rhythm"?
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
What is a "simile"?
These types of poems follow strict rules about lines, stanzas, rhythm, and rhyme
What is "Traditional Poetry"?
Where the line ends is called the line _________.
What is "break"?
What type of poem is this:
There was an old man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared--"
Two owls and a hen
Two larks and a wren
Have all built their nest in my beard!"
What is a "limerick"?
The use of words whose sounds echo their meanings
What is "onomatopoeia"?
A comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.
What is a "metaphor"?
These poems have no recognizable patterns or rules. Their lines do not rhyme in any regular way, and might not even be similar lengths.
What is "Free Verse"?
How many lines are in this poem:
If you always try your best
Then you never have to wonder
About what you could have done
to summon all of your thunder
And if your best
was not as good
As you hoped it would be
You could still say,
I gave today
All that I had in me.
What is "10"?
A fourteen-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme and end with a couplet.
What is a "sonnet"?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more nearby words
What is "alliteration"?
This gives human traits to something that is non-human.
What is personification?
This is a pattern of rhyme, that repeats across different stanzas.
What is "Rhyme Scheme"?
What type of poem is this:
Looking out my window
I see a towering mass of cloud—
a kingdom of air
reaching to heaven
in optimism and hope.
What is "Free Verse"?
a poem or song that tells a story using short stanzas. It often tells about a heroic person or adventure and has been passed down orally and even sung.
What is a "ballad"?
The repetition of consonant sounds either within or at the ends of words, as in the phrase "wide muddy field."
What is "consonance"?
This is an overstatement used to emphasize a point or create humor.
What is a "hyperbole"?