Figurative Language
Poetry Form
Rhyme
Types of Poetry
More Literary Devices
100
Exaggeration for dramatic affect
What is Hyperbole
100
The way the words of the poem look on the page
What is Form
100
Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds
What is Rhyme
100
Poetry where the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the story of the poem
What is Concrete Poetry
100
To refer to something famous
What is an Allusion
200
A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
What is Metaphor
200
Words that are together on one line of a poem, like a sentence
What is Line
200
When a word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
What is End Rhyme
200
Performance poetry that is presented orally rather than in the written form
What is Spoken Word
200
Language that appeals to the senses
What is Imagery
300
Un-human objects are given human characteristics
What is Personification
300
A group of lines arranged together in a poem
What is a Stanza
300
When a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
What is Internal Rhyme
300
A Japanese poem of three lines
What is a Haiku
300
When a person, place, thing or event that has meaning in itself also stands for something else
What is Symbolism
400
Comparison of two objects using 'like' or 'as'
What is Simile
400
The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
What is the Beat
400
An imperfect or close rhyme where the words share either the same vowel or consonant sounds BUT NOT BOTH. They look like they might rhyme, but don't.
What is Near Rhyme
400
A diamond-shaped poem
What is a Diamante
400
Words that imitate the sound they are naming
What is Onomatopoeia
500
The literary device in the words “warm wind, the west wind”
What is Alliteration
500
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is Meter
500
A type of poetry that does not have any repeating patterns of rhyme and is more conversational
What is Free Verse Poetry
500
A humorous poem of three long and two short lines, rhyming aabba
What is a Limerick
500
Similar to alliteration EXCEPT the repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
What is Consonance
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