The Basics
Special Effects
The 5 Senses
100
the way a poem's words and lines are laid out on the page
What is form?
100
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words, as in ME and SEE
What is rhyme?
100
Language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
200
The lines of a poem are arranged into groups, called this
What are stanzas?
200
The pattern of stressed nad unstressed syllabus in each line.
What is rhythm?
200
Uses creative comparisons to help readers picture ordinary things in new ways.
What is figurative language?
300
These poems follow fixed rules
What is a structured or traditional form?
300
The use of a word, phrase, or line more than once.
What is repetition?
300
A comparison between two unlike things, using LIKE or AS.
What is a simile?
400
Poems that do not follow set rules
What is free verse?
400
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, such as CURVED and CAVE
What is alliteration?
400
A comparison between two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
500
The voice that talks to the reader
What is the speaker?
500
The use of words (made-up or real) whose sounds suggest their meanings.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
A description of an object, an animal, a place, or an idea as if it were human or had human qualities.
What is personification?
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