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Poetry Terms 1
Poetry Terms 2
My Shadow/IF
O Captain/Road Not Taken
Types of Poetry
100
This type of rhyme is called off rhyme because it isn't a perfect rhyme.
What is near rhyme?
100
This type of rhyme is when a word rhymes in the middle of a line of poetry with a word elsewhere in the line
What is internal rhyme?
100
"Lazy little shadow" is a type of this figurative language.
What is consonance alliteration?
100
This is the man that inspired the poem "O Captain, My Captain".
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This poem is a three lined poem about nature that uses the following pattern: 1st line-5 syllables, 2nd line-7 syllables, 3rd line-5 syllables
What is a haiku?
200
When two lines of poetry are set aside by themselves.
What is a couplet?
200
This is a group of lines of poetry.
What is a stanza?
200
This is the type of rhyme that My Shadow uses.
What is end rhyme?
200
This poet wrote the poem "The Road Not Taken" in 1920.
Who is Robert Frost?
200
This is a humorous 5 line poem that uses a specific rhyme scheme and rhythm.
What is a limerick?
300
This figure of speech gives human characteristics to non human things.
What is personification?
300
This poetry term makes a poem similar to a song
What is rhythm?
300
"Shoots up taller like an India-rubber ball" is an example of this type of figurative language in "My Shadow".
What is a simile?
300
These are the two types of poetry that could describe the poem "O Captain! My Captain".
What is concrete and free verse poetry?
300
This poem follows no set rules or format.
What is a free verse poem?
400
This figure of speech is a comparison of two things WITHOUT using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
400
This is the tone of the poem.
What is mood?
400
This is the type of rhyme used in the poem "If".
What is end rhyme?
400
This is the metaphor found in "The Road Not Taken".
What are the roads compared to life or life's choices?
400
This is a five lined poem that describes a noun.
What is a cinquain?
500
This is the repetition of the vowel sound in poetry.
What is assonance alliteration?
500
This is the overall message of the poem.
What is theme?
500
Knowing how to be a man is a possible theme to this poem.
What is "IF"?
500
These are the types of rhyme used in the poem "O Captain! My Captain!".
What is end rhyme, internal rhyme, and near rhyme?
500
This poem's words create a picture to represent the poem's content.
What is a concrete poem?