Figurative Language
Poetic Device
Types of Poems
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Other
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a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
Two words with the same starting letter
What is alliteration?
100
This poem has 5 syllables in line one, 7 syllables in line 2, and 5 syllables in line 3.
What is a Haiku?
100
Pattern of rhyming words.
What is rhyme scheme?
100
2-line stanza
What is a couplet?
200
A comparison of two unlike things
What is a metaphor?
200
A repeated word or phrase in a line of poetry.
What is repetition?
200
This poem has the following rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
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Use of words or phrases to create an image in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
200
4-line stanza
What is a quatrain?
300
Giving something inhuman human-like characteristics
What is personification?
300
Repetition of sounds produced by consonants in a sentence.
What is consonance?
300
This poem uses powerful and beautiful language to express emotion.
What is a lyric poem?
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Repetition of vowel sounds within words.
What is assonance?
300
The person who is speaking in the poem.
What is the speaker?
400
"The sunlight creeped along the wall"
What is personification?
400
Patterns of varying syllables that create a musical beat in a line of poetry.
What is rhythm?
400
This poem has the following rhyme scheme: aabba
What is a limerick?
400
A line of ten syllables that are unstressed, then stressed. da DUM.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
400
The beat within a poem
What is meter?
500
"Life is a river, always flowing and changing."
What is a metaphor?
500
A word that sounds like the sound it is supposed to depict.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Witty, humorous, or nonsense poem containing 5 lines with very strict meter or rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
500
Act as paragraphs in poetry.
What is a stanza?
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The meter of a sonnet
What is Iambic Pentameter?
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