Types of poem
Poetic Devices
Identify This
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
This poem has seventeen syllables
What is Haiku?
100
This device compares two things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
Strong as an ox
What is an example of a simile?
100
This means over used
What is trite?
100
A dark and evil feeling...
What is ominous?
200
This poem creates the physical subject you are writing about
What is a concrete poem?
200
This device compares two things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
200
I'm so tired I can sleep forever
What is hyperbole
200
This means a extended life
What is longevity?
200
I'm going to think about this...
What is ruminate?
300
This poem speaks of a deceased person
What is an elegy?
300
This is an exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
You are a rose
What is a metaphor
300
This means rich or wealthy
What is opulent?
300
To be honest...
What is candid?
400
This is poem is praising someone
What is an Ode?
400
This is giving a non-living thing human qualities
What is personification?
400
The deep crystal blue waters splash violently against the tall grey wall of marble
What is imagery?
400
To be distant or disconnected
What is aloof
400
This means to create or make
What is poesis?
500
This poem has no form but still makes sense
What is a free verse poem?
500
This device uses the same letter for the beginning of two or more words
What is alliteration?
500
"Kakaw" said the bird
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
This is habit or manner someone has
What is idiosyncracy?
500
This is the format of a sonnet
What is fourteen lines, three quatrains and a couplet.
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