Poetry
Devices
Poetry Structure
Poetry Vocabulary
Poetry Examples
100
Tone
What is the attitude of a poem?
100
A group of lines in a poem, or a verse.
What is stanza?
100
Insight
What is a clear understanding?
100
Example: And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the trick is over.
What is rhyme?
200
Mood
What is the feeling of a poem?
200
Speaker
What is the narrator of the poem?
200
Associations
What is connections?
200
Example: He goes on Sunday to the church, And hears his daughter's voice singing in the village choir, It sounds to him like his mothers voice singing in Paradise!
What is simile?
300
Simile
What is the comparison between two things using like or as?
300
Poet
What is the author of a poem?
300
Specific
What is detailed, or exact?
300
Example: Each morning sees some task begin Each evening sees it close Each afternoon sees it through
What is repetition?
400
Metaphor
What is the comparison between two things NOT using like or as?
400
Rhyme
What is words ending in the same sounds?
400
Reaction
What is a response?
400
Nikki Giovanni wrote the drum.
What is the poet?
500
Poetic Devices
What is the way an author achieves a particular purpose?
500
Meter
What is the stressed syllables in a poem?
500
Repetition
What is repeating words or sounds for meaning?
500
A small boy is the narrator of the "Drum."
What is the speaker?
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