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Sounds
Figurative Language
Spot the Device
Rhyme Scheme
Miscellaneous
100
repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry
What is alliteration?
100
Thoughts swam in her head like tadpoles in a stream (2)
What is simile and personification?
100
Christmas came and went, conquering its cast with complications
What is alliteration?
100
the measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a poem
What is meter?
100
the dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation?
200
repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words in a line of poetry
What is assonance?
200
He held the world in his hands, like a god (2)
What is hyperbole and simile?
200
soul like ice, smile like fire
What is assonance?
200
poetry with no rhythm and no rhyme
What is free verse?
200
a three-line stanza
What is tercet?
300
a pair of rhyming lines
What is a couplet?
300
The feather danced in the breeze, pausing to ponder every so often
What is personification?
300
His face showed fear, scared what might lurk around the bend
What is enjambment?
300
poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
300
a long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero
What is an epic?
400
matching of final vowel or consonant sounds at the end of lines in a poem
What is rhyme?
400
using words to imitate the sounds they make is....??? Give three examples.
What is onomatopoeia? Buzz, swoosh, swish, pop, zoom, etc.
400
Down to the wire, and searching to inspire
What is internal rhyme?
400
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG is the rhyme scheme for ....
What is the Shakespearean sonnet?
400
Violence and dishonesty are often ______________ of the word "gang"
What are connotations?
500
the recurrence of accent or stress in lines of poetry
What is rhythm?
500
Her endless hair was soft and a warm blonde, like a sunset on summer evening (2 = 400; 3 = 500)
What is hyperbole and simile and imagery?
500
Crying out to the night, "Please let me sleep!"
What is apostrophe?
500
a line of poetry employing ten stressed and unstressed syllables per line
What is iambic pentameter?
500
Twinkle, twinkle, little star How I wonder what you are?
What is an apostrophe?