A formal poem written to celebrate someone or something, often honors people, commemorates events, or responds to natural scenes.
What is an Ode?
100
A Japanese, three-line poem with a specific syllable pattern.
What is a Haiku?
100
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. Example: “the rumor spread like wildfire”
What is a simile?
100
The formal division of lines in a poem, often function just as a paragraph does in prose.
What is stanza?
100
A rhyme in which the later part of the word is identical sounding to that of another. Examples: hat/cat, sky/high.
What is perfect/exact rhyme?
200
A solemn and formal poem often about death or loss. It may mourn a particular person or reflect on a serious or tragic theme, such as the passing of youth, beauty or a way of life.
What is an Elegy?
200
A poem that tells a story, including plot elements, conflict and setting.
What is a narrative poem?
200
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else. Example: “His cotton candy words did not impress her”
What is a Metaphor?
200
The line of poetry ends with a punctuation mark in which the reader pauses.
What is end stopped?
200
Words that sound the same but don't exactly rhyme. Examples: lover/ brother, fish/promise.
What is a half/slant rhyme?
300
A poem written in a shape that suggests its subject. The poet arranges the letters, punctuation, and lines to create an image, or picture, on the page.
What is Concrete Poem?
300
A very long narrative poem that tells an adventurous story, often about good vs. evil, and has a hero or god as the main character.
What is an Epic poem?
300
A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
300
The continuation of a complete idea or sentence from one line to the next without a pause.
What is enjambment?
300
The following is an example of what kind of rhyme?
"For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings."
What is a Couplet?
400
A songlike poem that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure and romance. This type of poem often features a refrain and makes use of rhythms and rhyme schemes.
What is a Ballad?
400
A fourteen line poem made up of three four-line quatrains plus a concluding two-line couplet. The rhyme scheme is usually abab cdcd efef gg.
What is a Shakespearean or English Sonnet?
400
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
What is an allusion?
400
A pattern of rhymes at the end of each line, the first line is designated with an “a” and all lines that rhyme with that word are also designated as “a”. If the next line does not rhyme with the first it is designated with a “b” and so on.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
400
Rhyming words appearing within lines used to emphasize the flowing nature of a poem.
What is an Internal rhyme?
500
A fourteen line poem divided into two parts: an octet followed by a sextet. The rhyme scheme is usually abba abba cde cde.
What is a Petrarchan/ Italian Sonnet?
500
A highly musical poem that expresses the thoughts, feelings, and observations of the speaker.
What is a Lyric Poem?
500
The use of words that imitate sounds. Examples: crash, screech
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
A Haiku consists of this syllable arrangement.
What is 575?
500
The following stanza has what rhyme scheme?
"The way a crow/
Shook down on me/
The dust of snow/
From a hemlock tree"