writing that uses the five senses to create "pictures"
What is imagery?
100
Making references, commonly from the Bible and mythology
What is allusion?
100
a) 5 line nonsensical poem with a rhyme scheme AABBA
b) simple 5 line poem
line 1 - one word of two syllables (may be the title)
line 2 - four syllables (describing the subject or title)
line 3 - six syllables (showing action)
line 4 - eight syllables (a feeling or observation about the subject)
line 5 - two syllables (describing or renaming the subject)
What is
a) limerick
b) cinquain
200
The Sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle.
What is personification?
200
when a poet repeats a word or words to emphasize
What is repetition?
200
A group of lines that form a division of a poem
What is stanza?
200
The feeling evoked in the reader upon reading the poem
What is mood?
200
a) 3 line, non-rhyming, 5-7-5 syllable poem
b) 5 line, non-rhyming, 5-7-5-7-7 syllable count
What is
a) a haiku
b) tanka
300
I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!
What is hyperbole?
300
a regular pattern of stresses, like a beat
What is rhythm?
300
The dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
300
What the speaker of the poem seems to be feeling
What is tone?
300
a) 14 line rhyming poem (3 quatrains, 1 couplet)
b) unrhymed verse in iambic pentameter (lots of Shakespeare!)
c) 7 line, non-rhyming poem, shaped like a diamond
What is
a) sonnet
b) blank verse
c) diamanté
400
The burning wood hissed and crackled.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
when two words share the same final sound
What is rhyme?
400
The emotional meaning of a word, which can be positive or negative
What is connotation?
400
repetition at close intervals of the final consonants of the end of words (first, last)
What is consonance?
400
a) A poem that has no rhyme or regular meter
b) Taking existing texts, rearranging, and presenting them as poems
What is
a) free verse
b) found poetry
500
You are a couch potato.
What is a metaphor?
500
when one idea or sentence is stretched over two or more lines
What is enjambment?
500
when the outcome of a situation is the exact opposite of what was expected
What is irony?
500
The repetition of vowel sounds (mad hatter)
What is assonance?
500
a) two line stanza:
b) three line stanza:
c) four line stanza:
d) five line stanza:
What is
a) a couplet
b) tercet
c) quatrain
d) quintain or cinquain