Parts of a Poem
Figurative Language
Poetry Terms
Elements of Poetry
Identify the Examples
100
a group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
100
a phrase that compares two things using the words "like" or "as"
What is simile?
100
two lines written together in a poem and which rhyme together
What is couplet?
100
the person who wrote the poem
What is poet or author?
100
Her hair was as golden as the sun.
What is simile?
200
words arranged on a single line in a poem
What is line?
200
a phrase that compares two unlikely nouns (without using the words "like" or "as)
What is metaphor?
200
the rhythm or beat of a poem
What is meter?
200
the "voice" of the poem, the person who is "speaking"
What is speaker?
200
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is idiom?
300
when the final sounds of two or more words sound the same
What is rhyme?
300
a common phrase that means something entirely different from what it says
What is an idiom?
300
the "shape" of the poem, how the poem looks on a page
What is form?
300
the kind of emotion a poem seems to be told with
What is tone?
300
The horse was a train rushing at me.
What is metaphor?
400
when words at the end of two or more nearby lines rhyme together
What is end rhyme?
400
words that sound like the noise they make (for example, "pow" and "boom")
What is onomatopoeia?
400
language that describes in detail using sensory, or descriptive language
What is imagery?
400
the message or main idea of a poem
What is theme?
400
Crash! Boom! Pow!
What is onomatopoeia?
500
when words in the middle of a line rhyme together
What is internal rhyme?
500
giving human-like characteristics to an object or animal
What is personification?
500
when different words in a line of poetry begin with the same sound
What is alliteration?
500
a way of noting a poem's rhyme pattern using letters of the alphabet
What is rhyme scheme?
500
She sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
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