Poetry Vocab
Types of Poems
Figurative Language Examples
Figurative Language Definitions
Mystery????
100
The formal division of lines within a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
A poem that tells a story, with plot, setting and characters.
What is a narrative poem?
100
"I lean and loaf at my ease..." contains an example of this literary device.
What is Alliteration?
100
A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
100
In the poem "Me" the first brief pause would come after this word: As long as I live I shall always be My Self- and no other; Just me.
What is after Self?
200
You show the pattern of rhyme in a poem by marking each end rhyme with a different one of these.
What is lower case letters?
200
A highly musical poem that expresses observations and feelings of a single speaker.
What is lyric poetry?
200
"All the world is a stage" is an example of this figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
200
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.
What is a metaphor?
200
In the poem "Song of Myself" the first FULL/LONG pause would come after this word. I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
What is after "you"?
300
Repetition of sounds at the end of words at the end of lines of poetry is called this.
What is end rhyme?
300
A song-like poem that tells a story about adventure and romance.
What is a ballad?
300
"The sun crept over the hill" is an example of this figurative language.
What is personification?
300
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to non-human subjects.
What is personification?
300
In "I'm Nobody," who is the poet addressing when she says, "I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you a Nobody, too?"
Who is the reader?
400
A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem.
What is refrain?
400
A rhythmic language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations
What is Poetry?
400
"As fast as a speeding bullet" is an example of this figurative language.
What is a simile?
400
A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.
What is simile?
400
In the poem "Lochinvar", the speaker is this person.
Who is someone outside of the action/ 3rd person omniscient point of view?
500
The pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language.
What is rhythm?
500
Lyric poems can be written with rhyme or without it. Poems that do not rhyme are said to be written in this. (hint: Walt Whitman is the father of this)
What is free verse.
500
"I didnt like to hear him sizzle so" is an example of this figurative language.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
500
In the poem "Nobody", the poet compares being a "somebody" to being a frog, croaking his name to an admiring bog. The frog is representing a famous or well-known person, while the admiring bog represents this.
What is a cheering crowd/fans/stadium?
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