Language that provides details related to sight,l sound, taste, touch, smell and movement.
What is sensory language?
100
In this type of poetry, the feelings of a single speaker are expressed. This is the most common type of poem in modern literature.
What is lyric poetry?
100
The pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables or words in sequence.
What is rhyme?
100
This poem has a verse form with three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. It is used to convey a single vivid emotion.
What is a haiku?
100
This part of speech shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence.
What is a preposition?
200
This is language that is used imaginatively, rather than literally, to express ideas or feelings in new ways.
What is figurative language?
200
This type of poetry tells a story using a character's own thoughts or spoken statements.
What is dramatic poetry?
200
Words that imitate sounds, such as "bang!" or "boom!".
What is onomatopoeia?
200
This is a fourteen-line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure.
What is a sonnet?
200
This type of language uses words in their ordinary senses. You mean what you say.
What is literal language?
300
This is what you call the pattern of rhythm in poetry. It is also what you call a unit of measurement.
What is a meter?
300
This type of poetry tells a story and has a plot, characters, and a setting.
What is narrative poetry?
300
This is the repetition of initial consonant sounds of words, as in "Peter Piper Pizza".
What is alliteration?
300
This is a verse form with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables that is used to convey a single vivid emotion.
What is a tanka?
300
This is the central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work.
What is theme?
400
These make comparisons between dissimilar things.
What are figures of speech?
400
This is a songlike narrative that has short stanzas and a refrain.
What is a ballad?
400
This is the repetition of consonants within nearby words in which the preceding vowels differ, as in the words "milk" and "walk".
What is consonance?
400
In this form, poems have neither a set pattern of rhythm nor rhyme.
What is free verse?
400
A preposition shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and this word or group of words.
What is the object of the preposition?
500
This is the pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables of words in sequence.
What is rhythm?
500
This is a long narrative poem about the feats of gods or heroes.
What is an epic?
500
This is often called vowel rhyme, and is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words, as in "date" and "fade".
What is assonance?
500
Also known as an Italian sonnet, this common sonnet form is named after an Italian poet and its 14 lines are split into an octet, and a sestet with a specific rhyme scheme.
What is a Petrarchan Sonet?
500
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem that is indicated by using different letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme.