Structure
This refers to the struture that holds or gives shapes to a poem.
What is FORM?
This type of rhyme happens when there is rhyming in the same line of a point.
This is a comparison of two things using like or as. f
What is SIMILE?
What type of rhyme is used in the following?
"Then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip, defiance gleamed in Casey's eye, a sneer curled Casey's lip."
What is END RHYME?
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"
INTERNAL RHYME
When analyzing structure, which of the following does not belong...
Line length, indentation, line breaks, white noise, stanza breaks
What is White Noise?
What is ASSONANCE?
This type of figurative language gives inanimate objects human-like qualities and characteristics.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
What type of figuare language is used in the following:
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,..."
What is Alliteration?
What type of sound device is used in the following?
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:"
What is METER?
The following types of poems have different structures Limericks, Free verse, Free form, Sonnets, Ode, Acrostic, Haiku
What is TRUE?
This is the pattern of beats in a line of poetry.
What is METER?
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
First, Last
Blank, Think
Strong, Bring
These are an example of what type of rhyme...
What is CONSONANCE?
The area around the poem is called this...
What is WHITE SPACE?
Structure contributes to the overall message or meaning of the writing.
This type of rhyme is also called half rhyme, lazy rhyme, sprung rhyme, near rhyme
What is a SLANT RHYME?
"She's a good swimmer but she's no Ariel."
In this line what movie is being ALLUDED to?
What is "The Little Mermaid"?
"Cause I can never let 'em on top of me
I play 'em out like a game of Monopoly
Let 'em speed around the board like an Astro
Then send 'em to jail for trying to pass Go"
These lines are an example of what type of sound device...
What is SLANT RHYME?
In what genres of music is slant rhyme often used?
Hip-Hop and Rap
What is Structure?
This is the definition of CONSONANCE...
A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea (historical, cultural, political, or literary) is which type of figurative langauge...
What is an ALLUSION?
“Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor–
Bare.”
This stanza from Langston Hugehes' poem from Mother to Son is an example of what type of figuartive language
What is METAPHOR?
This sound device is being analyzed in this poem line...
Slow slow, / fresh font, / keep time / with my / salt tears;
What is METER?