Figurative
Language
Language
A word that is used for sounds
What is an onomatopoeia?
A four line stanza
What is a quatrain?
(starts with G) Word that means "sparkling or shining"
What is glinting?
A single sentence or phrase in a poem
What is a LINE?
True or False?- The words "fine" and "sign" rhyme.
True
A phrase that compares two or more things and uses the words like or as.
What is a simile?
A poem with no structure or rhyming rules
What is free verse?
(Starts with P) Word that means "to understand or see".
What is perceive?
A person who writes poems
What is a poet?
True or False?- The words "bat" and "back" rhyme.
False
A phrase that compares two or more things but does NOT use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
A 5 line poem that includes a specific number of nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc.
What is a cinquain?
(starts with V) A Word that means "extremely big".
What is vast?
A "paragraph" in a poem
What is a stanza?
Words that end in the same sound or sounds
What is rhyme?
An exaggeration: Saying something is "grander" than it really is
What is a hyperbole?
A style of poem from Japan that only has 3 lines, and has a certain number of syllables on each line (5-7-5).
What is a haiku?
(starts with L) A talk, usually given by a teacher or other expert, on a single topic
What is a lecture?
Repeating certain words in a poem
What is repetition?
The pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
Giving human traits and actions to a non human thing
What is personification?
A poem about the craft of poetry
What is ars poetica?
(starts with A) A word that means "belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence".
What is ancient?
The space between stanzas
What is a stanza break?
The use of the same beginning sounds within the same line or stanza (example: tongue twisters)
What is alliteration?