A comparison between two different things using the words "like" and "as."
What is a simile?
100
Tongue-twisters such as "Sally sold seashells by the seashore", use which poetic sound device?
What is alliteration?
100
This poetry type is Japanese in origin and always contains three lines and 17 syllables.
What is haiku?
100
This type of poetry looks like a picture of its subject matter.
What is a concrete poem?
100
Words in a poem that share some ending consonant and vowel sounds, but not exactly.
What is a partial or slant rhyme?
200
"Laughter is the music of the soul"-What type of figurative language is this?
What is a metaphor?
200
Which sound device mimics the sound of things and animals in nature?
What is onomatopoeia?
200
This type of poem utilizes adjectives, gerunds, and phrases and often is on only one subject.
What is a cinquain?
200
Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride" is an example of this type of poem.
What is a narrative poem?
200
This is the order and arrangement of end rhymes in a poem, usually indicated by different letters of the alphabet.
What is a rhyme scheme?
300
This device is used when a poet addresses a dead person, an absent person or an object or emotion, as if it were a real person.
What is an apostrophe?
300
This sound device uses repeated vowel sounds to achieve its effect.
What is assonance?
300
This type of poem is a kind of lyric poem that utilizes a 'volta'.
What is a sonnet?
300
This type of poem always tells a story set in the past, has a narrator and uses a refrain.
What is a ballad?
300
These are rhymes that occur within the same line of poetry.
What is an internal rhyme?
400
What type of poetic device is used when a poet describes an object or non-human thing as having human characteristics.
What is personification?
400
This sound device is utilized whenever a poem repeats a line, phrase or stanza several times.
What is a refrain?
400
This type of poetry gives praise to someone or something, and is usually formal, but can be silly, too.
What is an ode?
400
This type of poem is meant to be humorous, has 5 lines in a AABBA rhyme scheme and has an easily identifiable rhythm.
What is a limerick?
400
A rhyming pair, or two lines of poetry that rhyme back-to-back.
What is a couplet?
500
This form of figurative language is used in the Monty Python film, "Holy Grail", when the Black Knight exclaims "'Tis but a scratch!" after getting his arm cut off.
What is understatement?
500
When lines of poetry have a set amount of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
500
Made up of three different stanza structures, a strophe, antistrophe and epode, this type of ode was originally written to glorify the winners of the original Olympic games in Ancient Greece.
What is a Pindaric ode?
500
An expression of the poet's inner thoughts and feelings.
What is a lyric poem?
500
This is a style of writing poetry in which no rhymes are required, but are allowed.