Forms
Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Figurative Language Examples
Sound Device Examples
100
No regular meter or rhyme pattern
What is Free Verse
100
exaggeration
What is hyperbole
100
repeating the same consonant sound
What is alliteration
100
"That courage like a rock, which she / Has no more need of, and I have."
What is a simile
100
"Don't look back Dinosaur. Dust is dust."
What is alliteration
200
a list of different images
What is a catalog poem
200
comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile
200
words that rhyme within a line of poetry
What is internal rhyme
200
"And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils."
What is personification
200
"Hear the lark and harden to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground."
What is internal rhyme
300
expresses emotions or thoughts
What is a lyric poem
300
human qualities given to something not human
What is personification
300
words that sound like what they mean
What is onomatopoeia
300
"the hands are churches that worship the world."
What is a metaphor
300
"water plops into pond / Splish-splash downhill / warbling magpies in tree / trilling, melodic thrill"
What is onomatopoeia
400
fourteen line lyric poem usually written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet
400
a comparison that is throughout the whole poem or more than one line
What is an extended metaphor
400
words at the end of a line that have the same sound
What is end rhyme
400
"and called one thousand times, I turned not once."
What is hyperbole
400
"Hope is the thing with feathers - / That perches in the soul - / And sings the tune without the words - / And never stops - at all -
What is slant rhyme
500
a song that tells a story with steady rhythm, rhymes, and repetition
What is a ballad
500
referring to an event or person that the audience would recognize
What is an allusion
500
words that almost rhyme
What is approximate rhyme (or slant rhyme, near rhyme, half rhyme)
500
"I can't remember the tale / but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer."
What is a metaphor
500
"I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills / When all at once I saw a crowd, / A host, of golden daffodils
What is exact rhyme or end rhyme
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