Vocabulary
Two words that have only their final consonant sounds and no preceding vowel or consonant sounds in common.
What is a slant rhyme?
A poem originated from Japan.
What is a Haiku?
In Poetry the repetition of vowel sounds.
What is Assonance?
A comparison between two unlike things using "is" or "was."
What is a metaphor?
A group of lines that are arranged together in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This is when a writer uses descriptive that speaks directly to one or more of a reader's five senses.
What is imagery?
A poem that has 7 lines and is shaped like a diamond.
What is a diamante poem?
In poetry the repetition of consonant sounds.
What is Consonance
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
A poem with no set meter or verse that mimics natural speech patterns.
What is free verse?
The sound pattern created by stressed, and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
A 5 line poem that has a rhyme scheme of AABBA, and is most of the time humorous
What is a limerick?
Repeating of words or phrases already said or written.
What is repetition?
The name of an action imitates the sound it makes.
What is onomatopoeia?
The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.
What is a rhyme scheme?
An exaggeration used to provide emphasis on a concept or idea.
What is hyperbole?
This poem was created by William Shakespeare and has 3 quatrains and 2 couplets.
What is a sonnet?
The correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words.
What is rhyme?
Giving human-like qualities to un-human-like things.
What is Personification
A sentence in a poem.
What is a line?
The regular pattern of stresses found in many poems and songs.
What is meter?
A poem consisting of 5 lines with the focus on the number of syllables per line.
What is a ballad?
An occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of a word or at the end.
What is alliteration?
A phrase that usually does not make sense and is not meant to be taken literally.
What is an Idiom?
An eight-line poem.
What is an Octet?