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Structure
Sound
Rhythm etc
Figurative
Forms
100
A group of words with no "break" in them.
What is a line?
100
A sound, word, or phrase that is repeated throughout a poem.
What is repetition?
100
A pair of syllables.
What is a foot?
100
Comparing two different things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Each line in this poem starts with a new letter of the alphabet.
What is an alphabet poem?
200
A poem paragraph.
What is a stanza?
200
A word that imitates the sound it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Represented by the symbol "/"
What is a stressed syllable?
200
Comparing two different things without "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
200
This five-line poem has one subject.
What is a cinquain?
300
A stanza with seven lines.
What is a septet?
300
The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of a word.
What is alliteration?
300
A foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is a troche?
300
Giving non-human things human behaviors, emotions, thoughts, etc.
What is personification?
300
This seven-line poem starts with a noun and ends with the opposite.
What is a diamante?
400
A stanza with three lines.
What is a tercet?
400
spoon/fume is an example.
What is a slant rhyme?
400
A line consisting of four feet.
What is tetrameter?
400
This is an example: "The cow was similar to a spotted hillside."
What is a simile?
400
This is a three-line poem about humans or their artifacts.
What is a senryu?
500
A stanza with five lines.
What is a quintain?
500
Oftentimes, the repetition will change in a poem to designate an important change in the story. Name two poems we read in class that have such a change in the repetition.
What is "The Lady of Shalott" (by Alfred Lord Tennyson) and "The Raven" (by Edgar Allan Poe).
500
A line consisting of seven feet.
What is heptameter?
500
This device is used to make the reader empathize with the non-human world.
What is personification?
500
This word means a pause in the middle of a line?
What is a caesura?