This is a beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem.
What is Rhythm?
100
The main idea in the text.
What is Theme?
100
A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.
What is a Metaphor?
100
Words that imitate sounds they are making.
What is an Onomatopoeia?
100
"I told you a million times!" Is an example of
What is a Hyperbole
200
These are words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel.
What is Rhyme?
200
This is used in poetry to covey feeling and emotion, and set the mood for the work.
What is Tone?
200
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is a Simile?
200
This is an imperfect or "close enough" rhyme. The words share either the same vowel or consonant sounds, but not both.
What is Near Rhyme?
200
"The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky" is an example of...
What is Personification?
300
This is a pattern of rhyming words or sounds represented by letters of the alphabet.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
300
A phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem.
What is Refrain?
300
The literal meaning of the word is not the meaning of the expression. It means something other than what it actually says.
What is an Idiom?
300
This is the appearance of words on the page in poetry.
What is Form?
300
"He was a stainless steel ruler, tall, straight and always measured in response" is an example of...
What is a Metaphor?
400
This is a word inside a line that rhymes with another word in the same line.
What is Internal Rhyme?
400
An emotional or social association with a word giving meaning beyond the literal definition.
What is Connotation?
400
An intentional exaggeration used for emphasis.
What is a hyperbole?
400
Each unit or part of the pattern in meter
What is a Foot?
400
The line "...Distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December" is an example of...
What is Internal Rhyme?
500
This is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is Meter?
500
The specific, literal image, idea, concept, or object that a word or phrase refers to.
What is Denotation?
500
Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of the words.
What is Alliteration?
500
This type of poem does not have any repeating patterns or rhyme. This sounds conversational.
What is Free Verse?
500
This is often found at the end of a sonnet -- two lines that have the same rhyme and meter.
Example:
"Whether or not we find what we are seeking
is idle, biologically speaking."
--Edna St. Vincent Millay