Rhythm and Meter
may, say, lay, day, ray, and faye are examples of this
What is rhyme?
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as, than, or resembles.
What is a simile?
A pair of rhyming lines
What is a couplet?
Two lines at the end of a poem that rhymes. These two lines are usually at the end of a sonnet.
What is a couplet?
All of Shakespeare's sonnets are titled as...
What are numbers/numbered sonnets?
Rhyme within the same line.
What is internal rhyme?
A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as.
What is metaphor?
Word choice is also known as...
What is a diction?
The way that lines are grouped in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The purpose of the last two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is to reveal the poem's purpose or true message?
A line of poetry with rhythm but no rhyme.
What is blank verse?
Saying something is bigger, smaller, worse, or better than it actually is. She scared me to death.
What is hyperbole?
The pattern of syllables in a line of poetry
What is meter?
A stanza consisting of four lines.
What is a quatrain?
Words that sound like what they mean. Snap, crackle, or pop are examples.
What is onomatopoeia?
When a poem does not have any rhyme, rhythm or form.
What is free verse?
He was fast as a cheetah and quiet as a mouse.
What is simile?
A fourteen line poem that follows a strict rhyme and line form.
What is a sonnet?
When a nonhuman object is given human characteristics. The limbs scratching at my window. The wind howling or hollering outside.
What is personification?
Repetition of the same beginning sound in words. Suzy sold seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
Ten syllables in a line -five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
Life is a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get.
What is metaphor?
Repeated vowel sounds in a line of poetry.
What is assonance?
When a poet paints an image in your mind by appealing to your senses.
What is imagery?
Language that cannot be taken in a literal sense
What is figurative language?