Vocabulary
Styles of Poems
Poetry Terms
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
100
Definition: to have made into tiny pieces
(HINT: past tense)
What is the definition of ground?
100
This type of poetry is free of rules, meaning it does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is free verse?
100
The pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
100
An example of this figurative language is:
The sky was like a vast ocean.
What is a simile?
100
A 'copper beech' is an example of one of these.
What is a tree?
200
Definition: not of this world
What is the definition of mystical?
200
This is a poem about poetry.
What is an Ars Poetica?
200
This is a group of lines for one unit of a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
Name this type of figurative language:
Beauty stood there waiting to greet me.
What is personification?
200
This is a poem with that rhyme scheme.
What is AABB rhyme scheme?
300
Definition: clear and obvious.
What is the definition of evident?
300
This poetry device links two ideas by repeating the same form in a series of lines. For example, two stanzas have different topics, but similar structures.
What is a parallel structure poem?
300
This is a stanza with four lines.
What is a quatrain?
300
Name this type of figurative language:
The moon was a ghost floating in the sky.
What is a metaphor?
300
In the poem 'Constantly Risking Absurdity' the author uses this poetic strategy to compare a poet to an acrobat.
What is an extended simile?
400
Definition: to feel sorry or regret.
What is the definition of rue?
400
A type of poem with 19 lines and each stanza repeats at least one line from somewhere else in the poem.
What is a villanelle?
400
The attitude that is communicated through the style of writing and the words an author uses.
What is tone?
400
The repeated sounds at the start of words. For example: Tasty Taco Tuesday
What is an alliteration?
400
An example of this can be found in the poem "Advice" where the father indirectly compares something hurtful someone says to how people can respond to worms.
What is an implied metaphor?
500
Definition: hold somebody or something motionless.
What is the definition of transfixed?
500
This type of poem addresses a thing or a person that is not present.
What is an apostrophe poem?
500
This is the repetition of words, often at the start of lines in a poem.
What is anaphora?
500
A poetry device that is an indirect reference to an outside work of art or cultural figure.
What is an allusion?
500
A southeastern USA term for large grapes.
What are scuppernongs?