Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Types of Poetry
What Am I?
Potpourri
100
a comparison of two or more things using the words "like" or "as"
What is simile
100
the patern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language
What is rhythm
100
it tells a story
What is a narrative poem
100
a group of lines in poetry divided by an empty line
What is a stanza
100
the central message of a literary work
What is theme
200
the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader
What is imagery
200
the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
What is rhyme
200
it uses dialogue to tell a story
What is a dramatic poem
200
a pair of rhyming lines
What is a couplet
200
poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
What is free verse
300
a figure of speech in which the words "like" or "as" are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items
What is simile
300
the repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration
300
a long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes
What is an epic poem
300
a stanza or poem made up of four lines
What is a quatrain
300
a fourteen-line lyric poem. hint: Shakespeare like them
What is a sonnet
400
when a non-human subject is given human characteristics
What is personification
400
the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables
What is assonance
400
a songlike poem that tells a story, often dealing with adventure and romance
What is a ballad
400
a pattern determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats, in each line
What is meter
400
a three-line verse that conveys a single emotion by means of images from nature
What is a haiku
500
the use of words that imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia
500
the repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds
What is consonance
500
a poem that is highly musical and expresses the thoughts, ovservations, and feelings of a single speaker
What is a lyric poem
500
What is Shakespeare's favorite rhyme scheme?
What is Iambic Pentameter
500
one of the 3 major types of literature, the others being prose and drama
What is POETRY
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