Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Types of Poetry
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Miscellaneous
100
A comparison between two dissimilar things that uses "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Words that sound like the noise they represent
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Poetry with no rules
What is free verse?
100
"S" in SLOW stands for this.
What is surface?
100
The author of "Harlem" and Harlem Summer.
Who is Walter Dean Myers?
200
A direct comparison between two unlike items.
What is a metaphor?
200
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
200
A poem that tells a story in verse.
What is narrative poetry?
200
Looking for things such as figurative language, imagery, and sound devices accomplishes this part of SLOW.
What is literary devices?
200
The man known as the Poet Laureate of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
Figurative language that gives human characteristics to something non-human.
What is personification?
300
Repetition of consonant sounds
What is consonance?
300
Poem with a strong musical quality that expresses the poet's thoughts and feelings.
What is lyric poetry?
300
Three parts of organization in a poem.
What are type of poem, line breaks, and white space? Also acceptable: text features
300
Groups of lines in a poem
What are stanzas?
400
"We wear the mask that grins and lies" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
400
"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out" is an example of this type of sound device.
What is alliteration?
400
A fourteen-line poem which presents an issue in the first part and a solution in the second part.
What is a sonnet?
400
Considerations include title, historical context, author's influences, and theme.
What is wider lens?
400
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
What is an iamb?
500
"Tomorrow you'll be dead/Out there where/The snow is lead" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
500
"By the doctor when I'm not cooperating When I'm rocking the table while he's operating" is an example of this type of sound device.
What is assonance?
500
The part of a sonnet that presents the poet's conclusion on the topic.
What is a couplet?
500
How does "My old man died in a fine big house./My ma died in a shack./I wonder where I'm gonna die,/Being neither white nor black?" show a wider lens?
What is this shows the frustrations of bi-racial people during segregation?
500
A shift in a sonnet is also known as this.
What is a volta?
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