Repeat!!!
What is Repetition
What is repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas. It is an intentional technique that the author uses throughout the poem?
What is a Simile
What is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things?
What does it mean for a line to be endstopped?
to have a punctuation mark at the end of the line (, ! . : ;)
A term for two words that sound very similar, but they do not truly rhyme.
What is a slant rhyme?
What is Rhyme
What is the patterned recurrence, within a certain range of regularity, of specific language features, usually features of sound?
What is Allieration
What is the same sound at the start of a series of words?
What is a Metaphor
What is a common device where an object of a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object?
the smallest unit of measurement in a line of poetry comprised of stressed and unstressed poetry
A term for a stanza with 4 lines
What is a quatrain?
Name the device:
Oh why! Why, chair must you break on me! WHY!
What is an apostrophe?
What is assonance
What is the repetition of the sound of a vowel?
What is a Hyperbole.
What is A figure of speech composed of a striking exaggeration?
What is Enjambment
What is the continuation of a sentence or phrase that comes from one line in poetry to the next, it lacks punctuation as the line breaks?
What is a Connotation
What is the use of words suggested in a different association than its actual meaning, it can be either positive, negative or neutral?
What is Imagery
What is the author’s use of description and vivid language, it deepens the reader’s understanding of the work by appealing to the sense in the book?
What is a Consonance?
What is a resemblance of sound between two words or rhyme that shares consonant sounds in the middle and end of words?
What is Apostrophe
What is a literary device in which the speaker addresses either an absent person or a non-human object, idea, or being and is commonly found in plays and poems?
What is a Stanza
What is a unit of poetry composed of lines that relate to a similar thought or topic like a paragraph in prose or a verse in a song?
A term for two words that rhyme placed in the same line.
Internal Rhyme
Name the device: "The wind whispered through the trees, telling secrets only the leaves could understand."
personification
Why do we repeat sounds, words, phrases in poetry? What is the purpose of repetition?
To add emphasis and highlight important ideas for the audience to understand and takeaway
What is Onomatopoeia
What is one way a poet can create sounds in a poem?
What is a Rhyme Scheme
What is determines and explains which lines of the poem rhyme with other lines in the poem?
What is a Couplet
What are two lines of poetry that usually rhyme?
Name the device: "My backpack weighs a thousand pounds!"
hyperbole