Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Forms of Poetry
Examples
Poetry Potpourri
100
Describes one thing as if it were something else.
What is metaphor?
100
Is the use of any element of language - a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence - more than once.
What is repetition?
100
is a three-lined Japanese verse, the first and third lines have five syllables and the second one has seven syllables.
What is a haiku?
100
She snapped and popped her gum in my ear.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
How lines are divided and then grouped in poems
What are stanzas?
200
Is anything that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
200
Is the use of words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Poetry that is defined by its lack of strict structure. It has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern.
What is free verse?
200
wind and sand
What is consonance?
200
The rhythmical pattern in a poem.
What is meter?
300
Is Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally. Poets use it to state ideas in new ways.
What is figurative language?
300
Is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
300
Poems that are shaped to look like their subjects.
What is concrete poems?
300
blade and maze
What is assonance?
300
Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
400
Gives human qualities to something that is not human.
What is personification?
400
Is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables.
What is assonance?
400
Are pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length.
What is rhyming couplets?
400
speech and teach
What is rhyme?
400
Song-like poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance.
What is a ballad?
500
Uses like or as to compare two unlike things.
What is a simile?
500
Is the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables.
What is consonance?
500
Poetry that tells a story in verse with a plot and characters.
What is a narrative poem?
500
The house was a zoo.
What is a metaphor?
500
Poetry that expressed the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in musical verse.
What is a lyric?
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