Literary Devices
Definitions
Poems
Characteristics of Poetry
100

4 Line Stanza

What is a quatrain?

100

Comparison using like, as, or as if

What is a simile?

100

Ballad about a boy and his tv

What is Jimmy Jet and His TV Set?

100

5-7-5 syllables

What is a haiku?

200

Her hair was like a river of curls

What is a simile?

200

Comparison of two dissimilar things

What is a metaphor?

200

A poem that has a rhetorical question in its title

What is Who Has Seen the Wind?

200

Uses ABCB or ABAB rhyme scheme

What is a ballad?

300

"We will inherit the earth"

What is an allusion?

300

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

What is personification?

300
This poem uses lots of dashes and is about nature

What is A Bird, Came Down the Walk?

300

"mile and smile", "trees and breeze"

What is rhyme?
400

Spring = rebirth, new beginnings

What is a symbol?

400

Reference to a work of literature, art, music, or to a historical event or person

What is an allusion?

400

Math poem about nature

What is Nature Knows Its Math?

400

A question a reader is not supposed to answer

What is a rhetorical question?

500

A question not meant to be answered by readers

What is a rhetorical question?

500

Person, place, thing, event, object, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning

What is a symbol?

500

Poem about meek plant life taking over the planet

What is Mushrooms?

500

Controls pacing of poem

What is punctuation?

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