The length and placement of lines and the way they are grouped. Quatrains and couplets are examples of these.
What is stanza?
100
Use of words or phrases to create sensory experiences for readers. Sensory appeals to what you can touch, taste, smell, hear, and see.
What is imagery?
100
Stray gray tray
What is rhyme or perfect rhyme?
100
Two successive rhymed lines that are equal in length.
What is a couplet?
100
A rhyme that comes at the end of a line of verse.
What is an end rhyme?
200
A repetition of final sounds in two or more words
What is rhyme?
200
Group of four (4) rhymed lines.
What is quatrain?
200
Purple pears; jiggle and jump for joy
What is alliteration?
200
A grouping of three lines, often bearing a single rhyme
What is tercet?
200
An imperfect rhyme, also called oblique rhyme or off rhyme, in which the sounds are similar but not exactly the same, as between "port" and "heart."
What is slant rhyme?
300
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words.
What is alliteration?
300
A literary technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis.
What is repetition?
300
Blueblack cold is an example of ____.
What is imagery?
300
When there is a break at the end of a line denoted by a comma, period, semicolon, or other punctuation mark
What is an end-stopped line?
300
A phrase, line, or lines repeated at intervals during a poem and especially at the end of the stanza.
What is refrain?
400
The teakettle ordered us back. The blades of grass danced in the wind.
What is personification?
400
A pattern of rhyme within a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
400
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
What is repetition?
400
a sentence or clause runs onto the next line without a break
What is enjambment?
400
A fixed standard form of (5) tercets or 3-lined stanzas and a final quatrain. The 1st and 3rd lines of the 1st tercet alternate in subsequent stanzas as a refrain and form a final couplet.
What is villanelle?
500
A poem that tells a story.
What is narrative poem?
500
An exact match of sounds in a rhyme.
What is perfect rhyme?
500
No longer mourn for me when I am dead [a]
Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell [b]
Give warning to the world that I am fled [a]
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell [b]
From Shakespeare's Sonnet # 71
What is rhyme scheme?
500
verse that does not conform to any fixed meter or rhyme scheme
What is free verse?
500
A type of figurative language where animals, inanimate objects, or ideas are given human qualities