When the outcome is the opposite of what was expected.
What is Irony?
100
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
What is Rhyme?
100
The dictionary and literal meaning of a word.
What is Denotation?
100
A word that mimics the sound it represents. Buzz, Woof
What is Onomatopoeia?
200
Comparison of two different things using comparing words such as "like" or "as".
What is a Simile
200
A reference to something the poet thinks everyone already knows.
What is Allusion?
200
Rhyming of words within a line of poetry.
What is Internal Rhyme
200
The emotional or cultural meaning attached to a word.
What is Connotation?
200
A specific device such as a hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, or understatement used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly. It is not meant to be taken literally.
What is Figurative Language?
300
Compares two different things as if they are the same, without using words such as "like" or "as".
What is a Metaphor?
300
The humorous use of a word in such as way as to suggest different meaning of or words having the same sound but different meanings.
What is a Pun?
300
A flow of rising and falling sounds in language that is produced in verse by regular repeating of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is Rhythm?
300
The repetition of a vowel sound, in two or more words.
What is Assonance?
300
Contains four lines and uses rhyme schemes. ABAB, ABBA, AABB, ABCB
What is a Quatrain?
400
A nonhuman object that is given human characteristics.
What is a Personification?
400
An expression of two or more words that means something other than the literal meaning of its individual words.
What is an Idiom?
400
Two lines of poetry that rhyme and usually contain one complete idea.
What is a Couplet?
400
The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a word in a line of verse.
What is Consonance?
400
When the cat isn't home/we do as we please/searching all around/for pieces of cheese!
What is an example of ABCB?
500
Giving human qualities to non-human objects.
What is Personification?
500
Words or phrases that appeal to one or more if the five senses. These words describe how subjects look, sound, feel, taste, and smell.
What is Imagery?
500
The most common meter in English verse. It consists of a line ten syllables long that is accented on every second beat.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
500
The repetition of the beginning sound or letter in two or more words in a line of verse.
What is Alliteration?
500
I shot an arrow toward the sky/It hit a white cloud floating by./The cloud fell dying to the shore,/I don't shoot arrows anymore.