Poetry Techniques
This is a comparison using 'like' or 'as'.
What is a simile?
This traditional form of Japanese poetry has 17 syllables in three lines.
What is a haiku?
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is called this.
What is meter?
This gives human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
This poem is shaped like the subject it describes.
What is a concrete poem? (or shape poem)
This is the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the ends of lines.
What is rhyme?
This technique repeats the same starting sound in a group of words.
What is alliteration?
This free-flowing form of poetry does not have a regular rhythm or rhyme.
What is free verse?
This is a group of lines in a poem, often separated by a space, like a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
This is an extreme exaggeration used for effect.
What is hyperbole?
This is a 14-line poem, often about love, using a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
When a sentence or phrase continues beyond the end of a line without a pause, it’s called this.
What is enjambment?
This is when a word sounds like what it describes, like 'buzz' or 'crash'.
What is onomatopoeia?
This type of poem tells a story and often has a regular rhythm and rhyme.
What is a ballad?
This is the repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words, like "bright light" or "cool moon."
What is assonance?