Literary Devices
Poetry Structure
Great Poets
Literary Devices #2
Wild Card
100
The dark sky is like a sea of chocolate fudge.
What is a simile?
100
Do this at the end of each line of poetry
Pause
100
This poet uses dashes
Emily Dickinson
100
The world is an oyster
Metaphor
100
The overall message
Theme
200
The trees wailed with despair.
personification
200
Two line poem
Couplet
200
Nevermore! Nevermore!
Edgar Allan Poe
200
The sun lets go ten million silver lizards out of snow!
Hyperbole
200
poem does not rhyme
Free verse
300
Bang
Onomatopoeia
300
Ryhme scheme of 5, 7, 5 syllables
Haiku
300
This poet went to live in nature in solitude
Thoreau
300
Her red lips glistened in the sun
Imagery
300
Some poems have a ____ scheme
Rhyme
400
From his heart grew a red, red rose
Symbolism
400
A French poem with a structured syllable pattern
Le Cinquain
400
Two roads diverged in a wood...
Robert Frost
400
The speaker's attitude on a subject
Tone
400
Poetry that tells a story
Narrative
500
Samuel slurped his strawberry slurpy until he swelled up like a snail.
alliteration
500
14 line poem
Sonnet
500
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Shakepeare
500
Poetry about the thoughts of a single speaker
Lyric
500
Shakespeare wrote in this form
Iambic Pantameter
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