Sound Devices
The recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
What is meter?
Rough Raged Roots
What is alliteration
A short poem that tells a story and consists of stanzas of two to four lines and a refrain.
What is a ballad?
The position or outlook from which the speaker tells a story or observes something.
What is point of view?
I am a poet
and didn't even know it.
I can make a rhyme
anytime
What is AABB
This is the beat of the poem
What is rhythm?
POW
What is onomatopoeia
A poem that does not follow any rules of rhythm or rhyme
What is free verse?
The voice of the poem; like the narrator in a story
What is the speaker?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sometimes I like to try
on a different shoe
What is ABCB
Repeating words or lines in poetry.
What is Repetition?
The water spins in the wind
What is personification
A short poem focused on the speaker's thoughts or feelings; often similar to a song
What is a lyric poem?
The speaker's attitude towards the topic of the poem.
What is tone?
The wonders of the world
Are not quite in a line
Sometimes they are off
But sometimes they are fine
What is ABCB
The repetition of an initial consonant sound
What is alliteration?
Her mood is as gloomy as a rainy day.
What is a simile?
A poem that includes two or more stanzas with similar structures; each line must rhyme with another line in the same stanza; usually a serious poem about a meaningful topic.
What is an ode?
The universal message about life
What is the theme?
This little girl
Made such a big whirl
We thought she had a temper
When she fell ill to distemper
What is AABB
To unify a poem or to reinforce the meaning or theme of the poem
Why do authors use repetition?
When Riley complains, she is a squeaky wheel.
What is a metaphor?
A long poem that tells about the adventures of a hero or a historic event, such as a great military victory.
What is an epic poem?
A poem that has fourteen lines with ten to twelve syllables per line
What is a sonnet?
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
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