Sound devices
A repetition of vowel sound within words or syllables.
What is assonance?
Two-line stanza
What is couplet?
A sentence in a poem.
What is a line?
Comparison between two unlike things, using like or as.
What is simile?
A Japanese poem that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
What is a Haiku?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
What is Alliteration?
A poem with a eight-line stanza.
What is a Octave?
a group of lines forming a section in a poem. Like a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
Phrases that are not supposed to be taken seriously
What is Idiom?
A songlike narrative poem, usually featuring rhyme, rhythm, and refrain.
What is a Ballad?
Repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds of words close together in poetry.
What is Consonance?
A poem with a seven-line stanza.
What is a Septet?
A particular pattern in which the ends of lines of poetry rhyme
What is Rhyme Scheme?
A saying that normally means something else, it does not use like or as.
What is Metaphor?
a five-line poem that consists of a single stanza, an AABBA rhyme scheme
What is a Limerick?
Words or phrases repeated in writings to give rhythm.
What is repetition?
A poem consisting of 14 lines, with a rhyme.
What is a Sonnet?
A specific part of a poem where the speaker's attitude about the subject changes to almost the opposite.
What is tone shift?
Words that sound like their meaning
What is Onomatopoeia?
A poem consisting of 5 lines with a focus on the number of syllables
What is a Cinquain?
The same ending sounds used at the ends of lines in poetry.
What is Rhyme?
A 7 lined poem, that is diamond in shape
What is Diamante?
The voice of the poem; poet or narrator
What is a Speaker?
an exaggeration used to provide emphasis on a concept or idea
What is hyperbole?
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is a free verse?