Types of poems
Figurative Language I
Figurative Language II
Potpourri
Opening Lines
100
A narrative poem written in four line stanzas
What is a ballad?
100
A direct comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
100
An implied comparison between two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
100
Boom! Crack! Hiss!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
He clasps the crag with crooked hands
What is The Eagle?
200
A poem that expresses strong feeling
What is a lyric poem?
200
An object or action that stands for something else
What is a symbol?
200
Giving objects or ideas a human quality
What is personification?
200
The matching of final sounds in two or more words
What is rhyme?
200
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
What is The Cremation of Sam McGee?
300
A formal poem in stanzas of various lengths
What is an ode?
300
The creation of a visual sense through words
What is imagery?
300
A figure of speech involving exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300
The dictionary meaning of a word
What is denotation?
300
Oh the shark has pretty teeth, dear
What is Mack the Knife?
400
Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
What is free verse?
400
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words
What is alliteration?
400
The opposite of hyperbole
What is understatement?
400
Perhaps better known as a short story writer, this poet expressed dark themes
What is Edgar Allen Poe?
400
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
What is The Raven
500
A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero
What is an epic?
500
A contrast between what happens and what is expected to happen
What is irony?
500
The associations called up by a word that go beyond the dictionary meaning
What is connotation?
500
The name for a contemporary and high-energy live poetry reading
What is poetry slam?
500
Hold fast to dreams
What is Dreams?
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