Definitions
Examples of...
Poetry
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Major Forms of Poems
Wild Card!
100
Words that imitate sounds. (Crash, splat, boom!)
What is Onomotopoeia?
100
There was a little hermit crab Who thought his tank was rather drab ... do ... blue. excerpted from "Decorator Hermit Crab," by Vanessa Pike-Russell
What are rhyming couplets?
100
This is the "voice" within a poem, but it's not necessarily the poet.
What is a speaker?
100
The major form of poetry which tells a story.
What is narrative poetry?
100
Stanza
What is a poetry paragraph?
200
Human qualities given to something non-human --could be an animal or a thing. (Bugs Bunny, SpongeBob, a cloud dancing on the horizon...)
What is personification?
200
A red rose = love. A dove = peace. A flag = a nation.
What are examples of symbolism?
200
A stanza is made up of these.
What are lines?
200
The major form of poetry which expresses feelings.
What is lyric poetry?
200
Rhyme Scheme
What is the pattern of end-rhymes in the poem, using letters to indicate each rhyming sound?
300
An exaggeration. (I live a thousand miles away from the school.)
What is hyperbole?
300
She was as beautiful as a wild rose.
What is an example of a simile?
300
This is another word for the message of a poem.
What is theme?
300
This type of poem tells a story (has elements of plot), is usually sung, is usually organized in 4-line stanzas, and is usuallly composed of rhyming couplets.
What is ballad?
300
The Wayward Textbook Oh, textbook - how you have traveled from school to under my bed from ethos into my head. You are intelligent and mighty, though you are often flighty -- flitting from my hands into worlds unknown.
What is an example of an ode?
400
The same beginning consonant sound. (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.)
What is alliteration?
400
The crashing ocean wave slapped the rocks in the face.
What is an example of personification?
400
This is the term for the feeling a poet creates.
What is mood?
400
This type of poem is a long story told in poetic form. It usually tells of the adventures of a hero, or the origin of a people.
What is an epic poem?
400
Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a) Admit impediments, love is not love (b)* Which alters when it alteration finds, (a) Or bends with the remover to remove. (b)* O no, it is an ever fixèd mark (c)** That looks on tempests and is never shaken; (d)*** It is the star to every wand'ring bark, (c) Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. (d)*** Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (e) Within his bending sickle's compass come, (f)* Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (e) But bears it out even to the edge of doom: (f)* If this be error and upon me proved, (g)* I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (g)*
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
500
The repeating of a line of verse for emphasis. (Yes, we can... Yes, we can... Yes, we can...)
What is repetition?
500
Barney was a rock for his family.
What is an example of a metaphor?
500
This is the poet's attitude toward the topic presented within a poem.
What is tone?
500
This type of poem expresses feelings of sorrow or lamenting over the loss or death of someone or something.
What is an elegy?
500
I have not lost my rings, my purse, My gold, my gems-my loss is worse, One that the stoutest heart must move. My pet, my joy, my little love, My tiny kitten, my Belaud, I lost, alas, three days ago. Excerpted from a poem by Joachim Du Bellay
What is an example of an elegy?
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