This form is free verse and does not follow a set pattern of rules.
What is organic?
100
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
100
On the Spot: Poets use this to make a comparison between two unlike things. They usually use the words "like" or "as" to help make the comparison clear.
What is a simile?
100
This is the number of lines in a Shakespearean Sonnet.
What is 14?
100
This poetic device is used in the following lines: Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
What is personification?
200
This is an example of a traditional poem. It has three lines with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 syllables in the second, and 5 syllables in the third.
What is a Haiku?
200
Point Zapper: The pattern of end or internal rhyme.
What is rhyme scheme?
200
An example of this can be found in the line: "The moon's complexion looked even paler than it had the night before."
What is personification?
200
The lines below are an example of this element of a Shakespearean Sonnet.
"So long as me can breathe and eyes can see/So long lives this and this gives life to thee."
What is a rhymed couplet?
200
This is the author's overall message.
What is theme?
300
Point Zapper: This is poetry written in un-rhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare's plays were written like this.
What is blank verse?
300
On the Spot: An example of this poetic device can be found in the line "sipping pulpy apple juice."
What is consonance?
300
Daily Double: An example of this can be found in the line "I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind."
What is hyperbole?
300
This is the rhythm of a Shakespearean Sonnet, and means five feet of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
300
This is the theme of Sonnet 18.
What is writing can immortalize a person or feeling?
400
Daily Double: The Emily Dickinson poem, "I Dwell in Possibility" is an example of this form.
What is organic?
400
Daily Double: Scanning a poem for this takes practice. You have to develop an ear for the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
400
An example of this can be found in the line "There was nothing to break the air except an orange beam across flat, smooth rock."
What is (sense) imagery?
400
Daily Double: The lines below represent this part of a Shakespearean Sonnet: "But thy eternal summer shall not fade/ nor lose possession of that fair thou ows't.
What is the turning point?
400
Daily Double: This is the theme of Sonnet 30.
What is love is essential to life?
500
On the Spot: This is a particular type of sonnet with a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
What is a Shakespearean or English Sonnet?
500
The line "swallows circling in their shimmering sound" contains this sound device.
What is alliteration?
500
Point Zapper: An example of this can be found in the line: "As I approached the podium, my hands were clammy, my face was a ripe tomato, and I felt like I would faint any moment."
What is a metaphor?
500
On the Spot: These are the three things that you should look for when identifying a Shakespearean Sonnet.
What are rhyme scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG), 14 lines, and iambic pentameter?
500
Point Zapper: These are the three things that a reader should examine when interpreting a poem.
What are sound devices, figurative language, and form?