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Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Structure
Various
Types of Poetry
100
A comparison of two unlike things.
What is metaphor?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds in a line.
What is alliteration?
100
A stanza with four lines.
What is a quatrain?
100
The meaning of a poem.
What is theme?
100
Short, emotional poetry
What is a lyric poem?
200
When a non-human thing is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
200
When words at the end of lines rhyme.
What is end rhyme?
200
A line with 10 syllables, or 5 iambs.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
The feeling of a poem.
What is tone?
200
A type of poem with dialogue.
What is dramatic poetry.
300
A comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
What is simile?
300
When words inside of a line of poetry rhyme.
What is internal rhyme?
300
A stanza with eight lines.
What is an octave?
300
The person telling the poem.
What is the speaker?
300
A type of poem written for a funeral.
What is an elegy?
400
A reference to an historical event or a work of literature.
What is an allusion?
400
The repetition of words or phrases in a poem.
What is refrain?
400
A poem written with no regular meter or rhyme.
What is free verse?
400
The word choice of the poet.
What is diction?
400
A type of poem which is written in iambic pentameter and has 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
500
Exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
500
When a word sounds like what it is doing.
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
A poem without rhyme but written in iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
500
A variation of a language found in different parts of the world.
What is dialect?
500
A type of poem which tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?