Figurative Language
What poetic device is used in the following sentence?
"Sarah is a walking dictionary."
Metaphor
speaker
What is a ballad?
A poem that tells stories of folklore or other real world events.
In what level of poetry would you look for things like metaphors, similes, and personification?
3: The Sensory Level
The literal definition of a word.
What poetic device is used in the following sentence?
Sarah snobbishly sits on the stool.
Alliteration
What is dialogue?
What is a sonnet?
14 line love poem
In what level of poetry would you look for things like the ideas and how they shape a poem?
2: The Ideational Level
What is an end-stop line?
What poetic device is used in the following sentence?
It's raining cats and dogs outside!
Idiom
What is conflict?
The problem that needs to be solved
What is an epic poem?
A really long poem that tells a story of a hero (usually on a quest or journey)
In what level of poetry would you look for things like alliteration, sounds, and the pattern of sounds?
1: The Sonic Level
The emotional feeling implied with a word.
What poetic device is used in the following sentence?
That book is as long as the Bible!
Simile
What is resolution?
How the problem in a story gets solved
What is the syllabic pattern for a haiku?
5/7/5
In what level of poetry would you look for the way a poem is arranged and formatted?
A group of lines in a poem is called a:
Stanza
What poetic device is used in the following sentence?
The frog croaked before it jumped into the pool.
Onomatopoeia
What is a narrative poem?
A poem that tells a story
What is an elegy?
A poem of loss/memorial
In what level of poetry would you look for things like capitalization, italicization, and font?
What is an enjambed line?
In a poem where a sentence starts on one line and ends on another.