Helps poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into many individual parts.
What is Line
100
This type of poetry form is known for its lack of strict structure.
What is Free Verse
100
The use of words that imitate sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia
100
Uses like or as to describe two unlike things.
What is Simile
100
The clarinets sang.
What is Personification
200
Arrangement of groups of lines to create an appearance on the page or to organize thoughts. Each is set off from the next by a blank line below it.
What is Stanza
200
Another form of poetry that takes the words of the poem and arranged to make an image that is also described in the poem.
What is Concrete
200
Repetition of sounds at the ends of words
What is Rhyme
200
Gives human qualities to something that is not human.
What is Personification
200
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall...
What is Rhyming Couplet
300
Pattern of rhyme. It is described with letters that represent different sounds; aabb Describes a stanza whose first two and last two lines rhyme.
What is Rhyme Scheme
300
A three line Japanese poem that has 5 syllables in the first and third sentences and 7 syllables in the second line.
What is Haiku
300
Repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration
300
Fame is a bee,
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing.
What is Extended Metaphor
300
Quarters rattle down,
Will I have candy or chips?
My belly fat grows
What is Haiku
400
Her eyes were saucers, wide with expectation.
Mountains of clouds...
What is Metaphor
400
This form of poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, most of the time it is very musical.
What is Lyric
400
Repetition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end in different consonant sounds.
What is Assonance
400
Describes one thing as if it were something else.
What is Metaphor
400
Water, Water
Everywhere.
What is Repetition
500
End, Hand
What is Consonance
500
A pair of rhyming lines that usually have the same meter and length.
What is Rhyming couplet
500
The rhythmical pattern(The arrangement and number) of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is Meter
500
A metaphor in which the comparison is developed in several ways, sometimes(but not always) throughout an entire poem.
What is Extended Metaphor
500
There once was a lady form Niger,
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger,
They came back from the ride,
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger.