Terms
What is The repetition of identical or similar sounds at the end of words?
Rhyme
What is a figure of speech that compares two distinct things by using a connective word such as "like" or "as."? For example: I am as angry as a volcano about to erupt.
Simile
What is poetic device that gives a non-human entity—whether that’s an animal, a plant, or a cantankerous dancing candlestick—human characteristics, actions, and feelings?
Personification
What type of poem doesn't need to rhyme and it can have as many lines or stanzas as the poet wants, and it can be about anything you like
Free verse
Simile
What is A group of poetic lines
Stanza
What is the visual (or other sensory) pictures used to render a description more vivid and immediate?
Imagery
What is the term for using the same word or phrase repeatedly?
Repetition
What type of poetry spells out a name, word, phrase or message with the first letter of each line of the poem?
Acrostic
What device is this an example of:
The sun smiled down on us today.
Personification
What is the term for word choice?
Diction
What is the use of descriptive words that sound or mimic the noise they are describing like boom or buzz?
Onomatopoeia
What is the repetition of sounds in a sequence of words like pet piper picked a pack of pickled peppers?
Alliteration
What is an acient form of Japaneses poetry that consists of just three lines ; the first and third lines have five syllables, whereas the second has seven and usually about nature.
Haiku
What type of poem is an example of:
There was an odd fellow named Gus,
When traveling he made such a fuss.
He was banned from the train,
Not allowed on a plane,
And now travels only by bus.
Limerick
What are words or phrases that are meaningful, descriptive, but not literal?
Figurative language
What is the term for when a writer compares one thing to another not using like or as for example the wind is a howling wolf?
Metaphor
What is A figure of speech which uses extreme exaggeration like I will love you for a thousand years?
Hyperbole
What type of Irish poems are funny and rhyme in the scheme of AABBA?
Limerick
What type of poem is this an example of:
In the moonlight” by Yosa Buson
In pale moonlight
the wisteria’s scent
comes from far away.
Haiku
What is
Meter
What is The use of an object, person, or event to represent something else.
Example: “A dove is a symbol of peace.” ?
Symbolism
What is the Repetition of the same vowel sound in a line of poetry? For example: She lived in the hills
Assonance
What is a very old form of poetry that was made famous by none other than William Shakespeare?
Sonnet
What device is this an example of:
Sally sold sea shells at the sea shore
Alliteration