Poetry Terms
"The big bouncy beach ball" is an example of this poetic device.
What is alliteration?
This punctuation (not a period) is usually placed after each line of a poem.
What is a comma?
True of False
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star has a rhyme scheme of AABBAA
True
Who is the poet best remembered for his sonnets, and who wrote Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
This type of imagery is about what the reader might physically see.
What is Visual?
"Okay, I make my bike take the lake trail" is an example of this poetic device.
What is consonance?
This is one sentence or group of lines which form part of a stanza
What is Line?
This Irish poetry style has a rhyme scheme of AABBA.
What is a limerick?
This popular poet wrote a poem about a girl who would not take out the garbage, and a short story about a Giving Tree.
Whos is Shel Silverstein.
This type of imagery is about what the reader might physically hear.
What is Auditory or Audible?
"James fails to make a date stay away/With his rizz, is it simple?" shows repeated use of this device.
What is assonance?
These are placed beside lines in a poem so a reader can quickly reference the location in a poem.
What are numbers?
In this rhyme scheme the 1st and third lines rhyme, and the 2nd and 4the lines rhyme.
What is ABAB?
This famous poet wrote poems about green breakfast food, and a Christmas Grinch who steals presents in Whoville.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
This type of imagery is about what the reader might feel or touch.
What is Tactile?
Bam! Whiz! Kapow! This literary device tells it like it really sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
This acts like a paragraph or group of lines in a poem
Stanza
In this rhyme scheme, the 1st and 2nd lines have end rhymes, and the 3rd and 4th lines have different end rhymes. It shares its name with the most popular Swedish singing quartet of all time!
What is ABBA?
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore" was written by A man whose first name was Edgar.
Who is Edgar Alan Poe?
This good ol' type of imagery is about what a reader might smell.
What is olfactory?
This poetry term describes the life lesson or what can be learned from a poem.
What is theme?
To show the separation of lines in paragraph writing this is placed between each line in the poem.
What is a slash (or forward slash)
I am thinking of a term for a writing format where each foot of a poem and on a stressed syllable, and there are 5 feet in each line. Hint, Shakespeare often wrote his sonnets in this style.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
This famous American female poet wrote almost all of her poetry from her upstairs bedroom and rarely left her home. Her initials spell ED.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This type of imagery describes what a reader might taste before their food hits their guts?
What is gustatory?