Types of Poems
Figurative Language
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Write me a poem
Potpourri
100
poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhyme and meter
Free Verse
100
the repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
100
two line end of a sonnet
What is a couplet?
100
when the sounds of these accented vowels and all succeeding sounds are identical
What is rhyme?
100
a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea
What is personification?
200
a lyric poem of 14 lines
What is a sonnet?
200
a stated comparison between two unlike things but they have something in common using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
200
a group of lines that form a unit of poetry (like a paragraph in prose)
What is a stanza?
200
4 line stanza, or unit of poetry
What is a quatrain?
200
language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meanings of the words
What is figurative language?
300
a long narrative poem on a serious subject, presented in an elevated or formal style
What is an Epic?
300
makes a comparison between two things that have something in common
What is a metaphor?
300
this poem tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
300
the repetition of a regular rhymic unit within a line of poetry
What is meter?
300
a literary technique in which a sound, word, phrase or line is repeated for emphasis
What is repetition?
400
a narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung
What is a ballad?
400
literally means "name-making" - the process of creating words that imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
400
the repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of words
What is consonance?
400
this refers to the pattern or beat of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
What is rhythm?
400
the attitude a writer takes toward a subject
What is Tone?
500
In Ancient Greece, the lyre was a musical instrument, and this became the name for a song accompanied by music
What is a lyric?
500
two unlike things compared in several ways
What is an extended metaphor?
500
the repetition of a vowel sound within non-rhyming words
What is assonance?
500
the feeling, or atmosphere, that a writer creates for the reader
What is mood?
500
unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
What is Blank Verse?
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