Structure
Sound
Meaning
Form
Examples
100
Helps poets add natural pauses by breaking up a poem into many individual parts
What is line
100
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or words
What is alliteration
100
Uses like or as to compare two unlike things
What is simile
100
Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker
What is lyric
100
Tick! Tock! On the clock but the party won't stop
What is onomatopoeia
200
Arrangement of groups of lines to create an appearance on the page or to organize thoughts. Each is set from the next by a blank line below it.
What is stanza
200
Repetition of similar vowels in stressed syllables that end in different consonant sounds
What is assonance
200
Describes one thing as if it were something else
What is metaphor
200
Tells a story in verse
What is narrative
200
I saw two shooting stars last night/ I wis on them but they were only satellites
What is rhyme
300
Pattern of rhyme. It is described with letters that represent different sounds.
What is rhyme scheme
300
Repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds in stressed syllables
What is consonance
300
A metaphor in which the comparison is developEd in several ways throughout a poem
What is extended metaphor
300
A poem in which th words are arranged to make a picture
What is concrete
300
Pain without love, Pain can't get enough, Pain I like it rough. I rather feel pain than nothing at all.
What is repetition
400
The common form or written language, both fiction and nonfiction.
What is prose
400
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
What is rhyme
400
Gives human qualities to something that is not human
What is personification
400
Three line Japanese poem
What is haiku
400
Use like or as to compare two in like things
What is simile
500
The way a poem is organized
What is structure
500
The rhythmical pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is meter
500
Is writing the appeals to one of the five senses
What is sensory language
500
A humorous poem with five lines which has a specific rhythm pattern
What is limerick
500
This time, this place misused, mistakes, too long, too late
What is alliteration
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