Sound Device
Repetition of the end sounds of words.
What is rhyme?
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
A Japanese poem with five lines and thirty-one syllables.
What is a tanka?
This poem claimed that the speaker's lover is better than summer.
What is "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
By making a fist.
Repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words.
What is alliteration?
A comparison of two unlike things NOT using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme that typically asks a question in the first eight lines and answers the question in the last six lines.
What is a sonnet?
The speaker of this poem could not afford to give a gift to his lover, so he gave a poem instead.
What is "I Am Offering This Poem"?
By making banked fires blaze.
How did the father make the house warm?
Repetition of vowel sounds in words that do not rhyme.
What is assonance?
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals or nature.
What is personification?
A poem that praises someone.
What is an ode?
The adult speaker in this poem reflects on a lesson learned from the mother while feeling car sick.
What is "Making a Fist"?
It's too short, windy, hot, and cloudy.
What is wrong with summer?
A pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines of poetry.
What is rhyme scheme?
Exaggerating an idea for effect.
What is a hyperbole?
A nineteen-line poem based on French literature that uses only two rhymes throughout the poem.
What is a villanelle?
The speaker of this poem regrets not showing gratitude to a father who worked hard and loved his child.
What is "Those Winter Sundays"?
Great Nature
What does Theodore Roethke revere in his poem?
Repetition of consonant sounds in words that do not rhyme.
What is consonance
Using opposite ideas to convey a new idea.
What is oxymoron?
A poem without regular stanzas, rhyme scheme, or rhythm.
What is free verse?
The speaker of this poem loves nature and reflects on the process of experiencing life to learn.
What is "The Waking"?
A flower, a leaf, and tomatoes.
What elements of nature are the focus of the three tanka?