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100
a sound device that repeats vowel sounds
What is assonance?
100
two words that sound alike
What are rhyming words?
100
one group of words that read from left to right
What are lines?
100
comparing two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
anything that joins or connects
What is a link?
200
a seven-line poem that is shaped like a diamond
What is a diamante?
200
when beginning (initial) sounds are repeated
What is alliteration?
200
a narrative poem, that is intended to be sung
What is a ballad?
200
a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used
What is hyperbole?
200
victory, success
What is triumph?
300
a five-line poem written with one couplet, and one triplet
What is a limerick?
300
expressions that aren't meant to be taken literally--"pulling my leg"
What is an idiom?
300
an author can create this by making certain lines contain the same number of syllables, or repeating the same word over and over
What is rhythm?
300
the vantage point at which a story is told
What is point-of-view?
300
to make known; to reveal
What is to uncover?
400
a Japanese form of poetry; it is made up of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
What is a haiku?
400
comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
400
one group of lines--the are separated by spaces between lines
What are stanzas?
400
the use of words whose sounds echo their sense--Boom! Pow!
What is onomatopoeia?
400
of long times past
What is ancient?
500
a five-line poem, each line contains a different number of syllables
What is a cinquain?
500
when a writer makes a thing, idea, or an animal do something only humans can do
What is personification?
500
building used for the service or worship of God or gods
What is a temple?
500
to change from one language to another
What is translate?
500
people who have much knowledge
What are scholars?