Devices
Figurative Language
Types of Poems
Miscellaneous
Story Vocabulary
100
literature in verse form
What is poetry?
100
use like or as to compare two essentially unlike things
What is a simile?
100
the repetition of the initial consonant sounds of nearby words (think of tongue twisters)
What is alliteration?
100
have neither a set pattern of rhythm nor rhyme
What is free verse?
100
worthy of respect because of age or character
What is venerable?
200
language that is used imaginatively, rather than literally, to express ideas or feelings in new ways
What is figurative language?
200
speak of one thing in terms of another
What is a metaphor?
200
show the reader where to slow down or pause
What are punctuation marks?
200
a fourteen-line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure
What is a sonnet?
200
gloomy and showing resentment
What is sullen?
300
make comparisons between dissimilar things
What are figures of speech?
300
gives human traits to nonhuman things
What is personification?
300
tells a story with a plot, characters, and setting
What is narrative poetry?
300
a feeling that something bad will happen
What is foreboding?
300
a close companion
What is comrade?
400
descriptive language that makes vivid impressions
What is imagery?
400
the repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words
What is rhyme?
400
tells a story using a character's own thought or spoken statements
What is dramatic poetry?
400
noisy commotion
What is tumult?
400
to master or prevail over
What is overcome?
500
provides details related to sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, and movement
What is sensory language?
500
a pattern of rhyme at the ends of lines
What is rhyme scheme?
500
a verse form with three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
What is haiku?
500
in a dull, unvarying way
What is monotonously?
500
grows vigorously; thrives
What is flourishes?
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