Elements of Poetry

Poetry Elements 1

100

What is anaphora?

What is when words repeat at the beginning of a line?

200

"Friends are chocolate chips in the cookie of life."

What is a metaphor?

300

What is literal language?

What are words that are based on fact?

400

I'd touch them

in her voice

smell them.

Is this nonliteral or literal language?

What is nonliteral language.

500

"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"

What is a hyperbole?

Poetry Elements 2

100

"Bang, woof, pow!"

What is onomatopoeia?

200

A kind of poetry that does not follow any regular pattern, rhythm, or rhyme.

What is free verse?

300

"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?

500

A description of an object, animal, or an idea described as human or with human qualities.

What is personification?

Structure

100

A group of lines in a poem?

What is a stanza?

200

How are poems written?

What is lines and stanzas

300

The repetition of accented vowel sounds, as in thing and sing.

What is rhyme?

400

Determine the rhyme scheme: "They put me in the oven to bake. Me a deprived and miserable cake. Feeling the heat I started to bubble. Watching the others I knew I was in trouble.”

What is AABB?

500

Free verse, rhyming, and haiku.

What are styles or types of poetry?

Vocabulary

100

What does confidence mean?

What is feeling certain or sure about something?

200

What is an opinion?

What is Your belief about something?

300

What does trek mean?

What is a long and difficult journey?

400

What does advancing mean?

What is moving forward?

500

What does resolute mean?

What is serious and determined?

Miscellaneous

100

A single row of words in a poem.

What is a line?

200

What is the difference between rhyming and free verse poems?

What is rhyming poems have a rhyme scheme and free verse may sound more like the author is talking to the reader.

300

The feeling the poet is trying to convey, the 'atmosphere' of the poem.

What is tone?

400

Write a possessive reciprocal pronoun.

What is each other's or one another's?

500

What are the elements of a haiku?

What is contains a total of 17 syllables and has three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables each?