Figurative Language
Compare two things using like or as
What is a similie?
The repetition of constant sounds (She sells seashells by the seashore)
What is alliteration?
A poem that narrates a story
What is a narrative poem?
A group of lines in a poem, otherwise known as a verse
What is a stanza?
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. This is an example of
What is a symbol?
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (boom! pow!)
What is an onomatopoeia?
The author's attitude towards the poem
What is tone?
A poem with 14 lines and the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg
What is a shakespearean sonnet?
Pattern of words that contain a similar style
What is rhyme?
The ghostly galleons grab greedilyThis is an example of
What is alliteration?
An exaggerated statement
What is a hyperbole?
The dictionary definition of a word
A lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women
What is an epic poem?
Rhythmic structure of a poem
What is a meter?
This poem sent a message of how a patriarchal society puts expectations and pressures on women
What is Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy
The representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is Personification?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
A type of poetry describing various styles of poetry lacking strict meter and rhyme, but still recognizable as poetry
What is free verse?
A poetic device that is used at the end of a line, and the beginning of the next line in a poem
What is a line break?
His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, What two poetic techniques are used in this sentence?
What is metaphor and simile?
An expression that has been used so often that it has become trite and sometimes boring.
What is a cliché?
The use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition
What is anaphora?
A fixed poem consisting of nineteen lines of any length divided into five tercets and a concluding quatrain. The first and third lines of the initial tercet rhyme; these rhymes are repeated in each subsequent tercet (aba) and in the final two lines of the quatrain (abaa). Line 1 appears in its entirety as lines 6, 12, and 18, while line 3 reappears as lines 9, 15, and 19.
What is Villanelle?
A term describing various styles of poetry lacking strict meter and rhyme, but still recognizable as poetry
What is iambic pentameter?
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.
-Dr.Seuss
What type of meter is this?
What is iambic tetrameter?