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Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Structure
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
"The cotton candy looked like a pink cloud."
What is a simile?
100
"Bang, woof, pow!"
What is onomatopoeia?
100
A group of lines in a poem?
What is a stanza?
100
A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
100
A single row of words in a poem.
What is a line?
200
"Friends are chocolate chips in the cookie of life."
What is a metaphor?
200
"Betty Botter bought some butter."
What is alliteration?
200
Free verse, ballad, and haiku.
What are styles of poetry?
200
A description of an object, animal, or an idea described as human or with human qualities.
What is personification?
200

A reference to a commonly known cultural theme or figure (i.e., Biblical references, mentions of familiar characters).

What is an allusion?

300
"The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet."
What is imagery?
300

"The dog in the bog was chasing a frog."

What is rhyme?

300

The rhythmic structure of a poem?

What is meter?

300
The repetition of accented vowel sounds, as in thing and sing.
What is rhyme?
300

The emotion the poet wants the reader to feel; the 'atmosphere' of the poem; how you feel when reading a poem.

What is mood?

400
"Please put your pen away and play the piano."
What is alliteration?
400
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP, AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP."
What is repetition?
400
Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message when read in a sequence.
What is an acrostic?
400
The message or lesson of a piece of literature.
What is theme?
400
A kind of poetry that does not follow any regular pattern, rhythm, or rhyme.
What is free verse?
500
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
What is a hyperbole?
500
"The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain."
What is assonance?
500

A short rhyming poem with 14 lines, often with a theme of love or romance.

What is a sonnet?

500
Something that represents another thing.
What is a symbol?
500

A traditional Japanese poem with a structure of 5-7-5 syllables per line.

What is a haiku?