A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
What is simile?
100
Poems with two rhyming lines.
What is couplet?
100
A poem that follows no specific rules, no specific rhyme,schemer pattern. Just about anything goes and it is a popular form of poetry in today's society.
What is free verse?
100
If the line of poetry is anapestic or dactylic, a foot of poetry has_________syllables.
What is three syllables?
200
The picture or "image" the poet creates with descriptive words.
What is imagery?
200
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas or animals.
What is personification?
200
A sad, mournful poem of lament and praise for someone who has died.
What is elegy?
200
A Japanese poem with only three lines the first of which is 5 syllables, the second line contains 7 syllables and the third line contains 5 syllables.
What is haiku?
200
When one syllable is strongly pronounced and the other syllable is softer.
What is stressed and unstressed?
300
Usig the same consonant sound to begin a series of words.
What is alliteration?
300
An exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
300
A long narrative poem that describes the adventures of great heroes.
What is an epic poem?
300
A poem written in fourteen lines using iambic pentameter which has a single theme or idea as its topic.
What is a sonnet?
300
A reference to another piece of literature or to history etc.
What is allusion?
400
The length of a line of poetry based on what type of rhyme is used. (The pattern of accented & unaccented syllables that form a line of poetry.)
What is meter?
400
A word or image that signifies something other than what is literally represented.
What is a symbol?
400
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
400
The length of the poetry labeled according to how many_____are in it.
Examples are:
1. Monometer 4. Tetrameter 7. Heptameter
2. Dimeter 5. Pentameter 8. Octameter
3. Trimeter 6. Hexameter
What is 'feet'?
400
The repetition of one or more phrases or lines at the end of a stanza.
What is a refrain?
500
Repeating the same line or phrase in a poem.
What is repetition?
500
"The waves danced upon the shore and kissed the sand," would be an example of...
What is personification?
500
A four line stanza in a poem.
What is quatrain?
500
Each foot consists of one unit of rhythm. If the line is iambic or trochaic a foot of poetry has ______syllables.
What is two syllables?
500
Words that spell out sounds; words that sound like what they mean?
Snap, crackle & pop would be good examples