Poetry Terms
Poetry Lines
Grammar
Advanced Poetry
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Poetry that has no meter or rhyme scheme.
What is FREE VERSE?
100
Life is like a box of chocolates
What is Simile?
100
When I read THE GLASS CASTLE, I felt sorry for Jeannette.
What is CORRECT?
100
The sea had climbed the mountain peaks, And shouted to the stars To come to play: and down they came Splashing in happy wars.
What is Personification?
100
Some people write with computer, others write with a pen or pencil.
What is Some people write with computer; others write with a pen or pencil.
200
A reference to a person, object, place or event, or to a work that the writer expects will be known to the reader.
What is ALLUSION?
200
"For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky"
What is Alliteration (or Repetition)?
200
I am so excited for summer but I'm not ready for final exams!
What is INCORRECT? I am so excited for summer, but I'm not ready for final exams!
200
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies
What is Simile and Rhyme?
200
She said "I'm in love with you."
What is She said, "I'm in love with you."
300
A lyric poem of 14 lines usually written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme
What is SONNET?
300
Cowards die many times before their deaths
What is PARADOX?
300
The book was read by the students.
What is INCORRECT? The students read the book.
300
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary
What is Alliteration and Rhyme?
300
John has all the ingredients; minced clams, milk, potatoes, and onions.
What is John has all the ingredients: minced clams, milk, potatoes, and onions.
400
The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech
What is HYPERBOLE?
400
As Shelia walked home from school, the wind gripped her in its frigid fingertips.
What is Personification?
400
I studied for my English final, however, I only received a D.
What is INCORRECT? I studied for my English final; however, I only received a D.
400
The sun is somewhere farther than the farthest ridge .
What is Alliteration?
400
I really like to read and writing.
What is I really like reading and writing. OR I really like to read and to write.
500
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is BLANK VERSE?
500
Whether or not we find what we are seeking is idle, biologically speaking.
What is Couplet (rhyme)?
500
At the end of the concert, the crowd rose to its feet and gave the musicians a standing ovation.
What is INCORRECT? At the end of the concert, the crowd gave the musicians a standing ovation.
500
The day turned into the city and the city turned into the mind and the moving trucks trumbled along like loud worries
What is Repetition, Simile, and Alliteration
500
We rode our bikes' to school.
What is We rode our bikes to school.
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