Types of Poetry
Elements of Poetry
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Vocabulary
Grammar
100
A nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.
What is a villanelle?
100
This is where words have the same ending sound.
What is Rhyme?
100
A comparison of 2 unlikely items using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
Simile, hyperbole, or metaphor.
EX. It's raining cats and dogs!
What is figurative language?
100
A noun that the sentence is based on or is the main part.
What is a subject?
200
This poem tells the story of an event in a persons life in the form of a poem.
What is a Narrative?
200
Division of lines into groups.
Or a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
A direct comparison between 2 unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
Readers feeling toward the poem.
What is mood?
200
It describes a noun.
What is a adjective?
300
A formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person and often set to music.
What is a Lyric poetry?
300
This is the continuation of a sentence in a poem over two or more lines.
What is enjambment?
300
Language using one or more of the 5 senses to describe something.
What is imagery?
300
Words formed by mimicking the sound they make.
What is onomotopeoia?
300
An action word.
EX. The cat climbed the tree.
What is a verb?
400
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
What is an Elegy?
400
Occurs when the author uses the same letter or sound to begin each word in a string of words.
What is alliteration?
400
Exaggerated comment or line used for effect and not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
400
It is the repetition of vowel sounds--not necessarily at the beginning of words as with alliteration.
What is assonance?
400
Expressing a thing that will happen, already happened, or happening now.
EX. Past, present, or future.
What is a tense?
500
A literary device that can be defined as poetry that has no limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms.
What is a Free Verse?
500
Occurs when the author gives the animal or object ideas or actions.
Hint: Human Qualities
What is personification?
500
Author repeats a word line or phrase to give emphasis.
What is repetition?
500
It is the repetition of consonant sounds--not necessarily at the beginning of words as with alliteration.
What is a consonance?
500
Has on independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?