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Performance
Forms
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Vocabulary
100
"The clouds tiptoed across the sky." This object has been personified.
What is clouds?
100
Movements with the hands and arms that aid in the delivery of a poem.
What are gesticulations?
100
There is an emphasis on the beauty of nature with a 5,7,5 line syllable count.
What is a haiku?
100
Comparing something to something else using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
A group of words strung together forms this.
What is a line?
200
"Roses are red, Violets are blue. The flowers are dead, and so are you." The rhyme scheme of this poem
What is ABAB?
200
When the speaker makes sure to look out into the audience in order to connect with those listening.
What is eye contact?
200
This poem is shaped like a diamond and tends to focus on opposites.
What is a diamante?
200
When the beginning letters of words are the same. For example, "The tight-striped tiger tiptoed toward the tree."
What is alliteration?
200
A group of lines in a poem. They are combined to create a poem. And sometimes, a poem only has one.
What is a stanza?
300
"I hang on to the tree with all my might. I hang on tight, until the fall, when I change and fall." The persona the poet took on...
What is a leaf?
300
When a speaker makes sure his voice is heard in every corner of the room.
What is projection?
300
This poem has five lines and focuses on specific parts of objects or ideas.
What is a cinquain?
300
When something is exaggerated immensely for an effect.
What is a hyperbole?
300
A poet takes this on when he wishes to write from some other point of view.
What is a persona?
400
"I wake up, look down" The point of view in this poem...
What is first person?
400
When a speaker's words and clear and sounded out appropriately.
What is articulation?
400
This kind of poem does not follow any rules or regulations.
What is free form?
400
When a writer gives human-like qualities to an inanimate or inhuman object or thing.
What is personification?
400
This is two lines of poetry.
What is a couplet?
500
"The snake slithered, writhing in the sand. His eyes were hidden, and he creeped slowly, slowly." The tone of this poem...
What is creepy/eerie/anticipatory?
500
When a performance poet marks up his poem, he is doing this.
What is scoring?
500
These poetic lines do not have pauses at the end; rather, they continue on into the next.
What are enjambed lines?
500
When a poet compares one thing to something else, in essence saying one this really IS something else, throughout a poem's entirety.
What is an overriding metaphor?
500
When a poet focuses on his diction, he is taking this into consideration.
What is word choice?