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Types of Poems
Poetic Terms
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What is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)
Poetry
100
What is the beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
Rhythm
100
What is a comparison using like or as
Simile
100
What is a short poem Usually written in first person point of view Expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene Does not tell a story and are often musical
Lyric
100
What is a word that imitate the sound they are naming
ONOMATOPOEIA
200
What is the appearance of the words on the page
Form
200
What is words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
Rhyme
200
What is a comparison that states that something is directly something else
Metaphor
200
What is a Japanese poem written in three lines Five Syllables Seven Syllables Five Syllables
Haiku
200
What is consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
Alliteration
300
What is a group of words together on one line of the poem
Line
300
What is a word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
End rhyme
300
What is an exaggeration often used for emphasis
Hyperbole
300
What is a poem that tells a story. Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry b/c the poet needs to establish characters and a plot.
Narrative Poem
300
What is similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . . The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
Consonance
400
What is a group of lines arranged together
Stanza
400
What is a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
Internal rhyme
400
What is an large understatement, basically the opposite of hyperbole. Often it is ironic. Ex. Calling a slow moving person “Speedy”
Litotes
400
What is a poem where the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem.
Concrete poem
400
What is repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
Assonance
500
What 2 devices are used in this sentence? The bee buzzed by like a plane in the sky.
Simile and Onomatopoeia
500
What is a a pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always). Uses the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern.
Rhyme scheme
500
What is an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. It means something other than what it actually says. Ex. It’s raining cats and dogs.
Idiom
500
What type of poem is this? An old silent pond . . . A frog jumps into the pond. Splash! Silence again.
Traditional Haiku
500
What is a sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem.
Refrain
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