Figurative Language
This is a repetition of consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
This type of poetry tells a story.
What is narrative poetry?
This is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet.
This is a book of synonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
This is a short summary of a funny event.
What is an anecdote?
This is a repetition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
This type of poem is very long and tells the story of the adventures of an almost superhuman character.
What is an epic poem?
This is what the last two lines of a sonnet are called.
What is a couplet?
What is an encyclopedia?
This is a character who displays opposite characteristics of the main character(s).
What is a foil?
This is the term for sound effects such as "woof", "bang", "buzz"
What is onomatopoeia?
This is a Japanese form of poetry with three lines of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables
What is haiku?
These are the first 3 sets of lines in a sonnet. (abab cdcd, efef)
What is a quatrain?
This is a magazine or book that contains weather forecasts or statistics.
What is an almanac?
The ordinary form of written language
What is prose?
This is a pair of contradictory words
What is oxymoron?
This is a poem that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker.
What is lyric poetry?
This is the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
Additional material given at the end of a book is called this.
What is the appendix?
This is an overused word or phrase.
What is cliche?
This is a poem that tells the story of a person from the past and is often set to music.
What is a ballad?
What is iambic pentameter?
This is the listing of sources used in an essay or research paper.
What is Works Cited page?
This is everyday speech or slang.
What is informal or colloquial language?