Poetry Basics
Figurative Language
What Words Mean
Extras
Poetry Forms
100
This is like a paragraph in an essay.
What is a stanza?
100
Compares unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
The dictionary definition of words.
What is denotation?
100
A poem in the shape of its subject.
What is a concrete poem?
100
5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllabes
What is the form for haiku's?
200
The rhyme scheme limericks is...
What is AABBA.
200
Compares unlike objects using a "to be" verb.
What is a metaphor?
200
The feelings and emotions that we add to words.
What is connotation?
200
Something that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
200
7-lined poem in the shape of a diamond
What is a diamante?
300
Gives human qualities to a non-human object.
What is personification?
300
Phrases that are not meant to be taken literally, and only make sense as a whole in our society.
What are idioms?
300
An extended metaphor.
What is an allegory?
300
5 lined poem with a pattern of 1 word, 2 syllables 2 words, 4 syllables 3 words, 6 syllables 4 words, 8 syllables 1 word, 2 syllables
What is a cinquain?
400
This form has two lines that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
400
An extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
400
The author's attitude toward a work.
What is tone?
400
What you see in your mind's eye when you read a literary work.
What is imagery?
400
Poems that have 4 line stanzas and tell a story. These poems will have a set rhyme scheme.
What is a ballad.
500
This form has 3 lines.
What is a tercet?
500
A word that represents a sound.
What is a onomatopoeia?
500
The word choice in a literary work.
What is diction?
500
The rhythm of a poem.
What is meter?
500
A 14-line poem that uses iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
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