Figurative Language
Types of Poems
Parts of a Poem
Examples
Misc.
100
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object that is not literal.
What is metaphor?
100
Japanese poem of seventeen syllables in lines of 5, 7, 5.
What is Haiku?
100
two lines of verse joined by a rhyme.
What is couplet?
100
Sally sells sandwiches on Sunday
What is alliteration?
100
In an ellipsis, this shows the words that are superfluous.
What is a set of dots?
200
occurance of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
200
Five line stanza starting and ending with synonyms and including adjectives and other specified elements.
What is Cinquain?
200
group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit.
What is a stanza?
200
That was the best pizza in the whole world.
What is hyperbole?
200
Poetry that does not have rhyme or regular meter.
What is free verse?
300
When two unlike things are compared using like or as
What is simile?
300
Fourteen line poem using a formal rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
300
unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats.
What is meter?
300
The perfect disaster
What is oxymoron?
300
The Austin Powers movies are an example of this.
What is parody?
400
Attribution of personal characteristics to something nonhuman
What is personification?
400
A mournful poem
What is a dirge?
400
group of syllables constituting a metrical unit.
What is a foot?
400
Oink!
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The psychic had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances is an example.
What is irony?
500
Obvious and intentional exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
500
Poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
What is a ballad?
500
correspondence of sound and the end of words.
What is rhyme?
500
She should use her ruby slippers to go home.
What is allusion?
500
Liberty taken by a poet or writer to deviate from conventional rules.
What is poetic license?
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