Taylor Swift or Shakespeare
Figurative Language
Poetry Terms
Types of Poetry
Misc.
100

How can it be said I am alone when all the world is here to look at me?

Shakespeare - A Midsummer's Night Dream

100

Metaphor

A comparison between two things not using like or as.

100

a grouped set of lines in a poem, set a part from others with a line of space

Stanza

100

a very short poem that contains 3 lines with 17 total syllables; originated in Japan and is usually about nature

Haiku

100

Hyperbole

An obvious exaggeration

200

Do you miss the rogue who coaxed you into paradise and left you there?

Taylor Swift - coney island 

200

Simile

A comparison between two things using like or as

200

the pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem, written as letters

Rhyme Scheme

200

a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the writer; has a song-like quality

Lyric poem

200

What poet said: "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Maya Angelou

300

Did I close my fist around something delicate? Did I shatter you?

Taylor Swift - coney island (evermore)

300

Personification

When non-human objects are given human characteristics

300

rhymes at the ends of lines

end rhyme

300

poetry that has no regular rhythm, meter, rhyme, or structure

Free Verse

300

Taylor Swift or Edgar Allen Poe?

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing."

Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven

400

My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break

Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew

400

Onomatopoeia

Uses sound words. These words imitate the sounds things make.

400

rhymes within lines

internal rhyme

400

a poem that celebrates a subject; a tribute to an object, person, or event

Ode

400

Types of Poetry: a poem written in response to the death of a person or group; a poem of mourning

Elegy

500

In black ink my love may still shine bright

Shakespeare - Sonnet 65

500

Alliteration

Similar beginning sounds that are used in two or more words close together

500

the basic rhythmic structure of  a verse of poetry

Meter

500

a poem that tells a story and  has characters, a setting,  and a plot

Narrative Poem

500

Who is Miss Eberhard's favorite poet?

Robert Frost