In his 1976 musical hit, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightsfoot used this musical device in describing the demise of a Great Lakes tanker - "The wind in the wire made a tattle tale sound, as a wave broke over the railing"
What is alliteration
100
A two syllable pattern consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
What is iambic
100
A Japanese "nature" poem written in a 5-7-5 pattern
What is a Haiku
100
This quatrain about a church bombing in Alabama
What is a ballad
200
The spring rain is a thread of pearls.
What is a metaphor
200
The repetition of the first vowel sounds in word pairs or triplets
What is assonance
200
stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry
What is scansion
200
Poetry written for amusement. Weird Al Yankovich for one
What is a parody
200
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd morning the death of Abraham Lincoln
What is an elegy
300
Giving human characteristics to an animal, object or idea.
What is personification
300
The matching of one syllable--typically at the end of a line of poetry
What is masculine rhyme
300
A three syllable pattern consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
What is anapestic
300
unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse
300
The Iliad or The Odyssey
What is an epic
400
All hands on deck! is an example of this figurative language
What is a synecdoche
400
Words that do not actually rhyme as in: lovely and funny
What is slant or approximate rhyme
400
A three syllable pattern consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
What is dactylic
400
Yoda speak would best describe this pattern
What is an inversion
400
Paul Revere's Ride, although perhaps more fiction than truth
What is a narrative
500
Edgar Allen Poe showed his mastery of this figurative language style in his famous poem, "The Raven" in the stanza: "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting"
What is anaphora
500
Similar spellings yet different pronunciations
What is eye rhyme
500
A four-foot pattern with the line groupings:
ABBAB CDDCD EFFEF
What is a tetrameter written in quintets
500
A 14-line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter consisting of an octet followed by a sestet
What is a Petrachan or Italian Sonnet
500
Dante's Divine Comedy written in the following grouping:
ABA BCB CDC DED EFE GG