Poetic Devices
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Two lines that rhyme, one after the other.
(What is a rhyming couplet?)
A Japanese 5-7-5
What is a Haiku?
The repeated part of a song that comes back after each verse.
What is a Chorus?
What is a Pride?
Giving human qualities to non-human things, like "the wind whispered."
What is personification?
The name for a group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
A funny five-line poem, often starting "There was an old man from..."
What is a Limerick?
The catchy main line of a song designed to stick in your head
What is a hook?
This Australian prime minister disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach in 1967 and was never found
Who is Harold Holt?
The repetition of the same starting sound, like "Peter Piper picked."
What is alliteration?
The number of syllables in this line: "The cat sat on the mat."
What is Six?
Poetry with no regular rhyme or rhythm
What is free verse?
In "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star," the star is compared to this
What is a Diamond?
This is the only letter that does not appear in any US state name.
What is Q?
A word that imitates a sound, like "buzz" or "crash."
What is onomatopoeia
The rhyme scheme where the first and third lines rhyme, and the second and fourth rhyme.
What is 'ABAB'?
A 14-line poem often about love, famously written by Shakespeare.
What is a Sonnet?
Rappers rely heavily on this device where word endings match.
What is Rhyme?
In this sport, players use a curved wooden stick to hit a small ball through hoops, and it featured at the 1900 and 1904 Olympics before disappearing
What is 'Croquet'?
A comparison that says one thing IS another, like "the classroom was a zoo."
What is a metaphor?
The word for the rhythm or beat of a poem, measured in stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is metre?
A poem that tells a story, often set to music and passed down orally.
What is a Ballad?
When a song paints a picture in your mind using descriptive language, it's using this.
What is Imagery?
This is the only sport to have been played on the moon
What is golf?