Poetry Terms
The basic unit of a poem.
What is a line?
The repetition of sounds.
What is alliteration?
I can look in the prompt and make a question.
What is a topic sentence?
In this poem, the author uses the word hate repeatedly.
What is Why We Play Basketball?
Sets of rhyming words at the end of two lines.
What is a couplet?
A section or chunk of a poem.
What is a stanza?
Words that share only the FINAL sound in common.
What is slant rhyme?
I can make my topic sentence into a statement again.
What is a conclusion?
This poem was 4 lines and had a lot of alliteration.
What is "Ask Aden"?
A small chunk of a poem or story. Has the word "from" before the title.
What is an excerpt?
A 4 line stanza.
What is a quatrain?
A poem without any rhyme scheme or set pattern.
What is free verse?
I can copy straight from the text using "quotation marks."
What is C/citing?
This poem compared a cat to a weather phenomena.
What is "Fog?"
The use of the same sound, word, or phrase. Used over and over again.
What is repetition?
The message of a poem.
What is the content?
An exaggerated statement.
What is hyperbole?
I have to change a few words to make it my own statement?
What is A/answers?
This poem had a couplet rhyme scheme and an excerpt from a classic story we all know.
What is "Little Red Riding Hood?"
The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of a line in poetry.
What is anaphora?
The emotion of a story.
What is tone?
Simile and metaphors are examples of this.
What is figurative language?
A completely original thought from my own brain?
What is E/explain?
This poem in composed of quatrains and has rhyming couplets that is 13 stanzas long.
What is "Casey at the Bat?"
Uses like or as to compare two things.
What is a simile?