Literary Devices
Sounds/Rhymes
Types of Poems
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Poempourri
100
A comparison using like or as.
What is a Simile?
100
The use of words which sound like what they mean.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. Poetry with no set structure.
What is Free Verse?
100
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
100
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph).
What is a stanza?
200
The repetition of first consonants in a group of words.
What is alliteration?
200
Harsh sounds introduced for poetic effect - sometimes words that are difficult to pronounce.
What is cacophony?
200
A Poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
200
giving human qualities to an animal, thing, or idea.
What is personification?
200
The underlying message, or 'big idea.' In other words, what critical belief about life is the author trying to convey or lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is the theme?
300
a comparison that does not use the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
300
The rhyme scheme in this stanza: A robin sitting in a tree Turned her head and winked at me, She sang a song as if to say, “I’m glad to see you here today.”
What is AABB?
300
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
300
A direct or indirect reference to a familiar figure, place or event from history, literature, mythology or the Bible.
What is allusion?
300
The attitude a poem implies.
What is tone?
400
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.
What is assonance?
400
Using words that do not rhyme but look like they are rhyming.
What is sight rhyme?
400
an unrhymed, five-line poem.
What is a quatrain?
400
The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry whether at the end of words or in the middle of words.
What is consonance?
400
A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
500
The running over of a line or thought into the next line without a strong break or pause.
What is enjambment?
500
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet.
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
500
A poem containing three elements: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past or a plot-driven song/poem, with one or more characters hurriedly unfurling events leading to a dramatic conclusion.
What is a ballad?
500
A term or phrase that cannot be understood by a literal translation, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is understood through common use.
What is an idiom?
500
The inner thoughts of a character are spoken aloud to an audience and no other character can "hear" the thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
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