What is this?
I waited in line for a million hours until it was my turn.
What is hyperbole?
A Shakespearean sonnet has this many lines.
What is 14?
This is describing the feelings/emotions that a reader gets from a piece of literature.
mood
book and took
ghost and host
love and dove
What are rhymes?
Traditional Japanese poem with three line stanza and 5/7/5 syllable count.
What is Haiku?
I really, really want to understand how you really feel.
What is repetition?
The author's attitude towards a subject.
What is tone?
The giving of human qualities or characterisics to inanimate objects.
What is personification?
What is Onomatopoeia?
A poem that is deliberately irregular and often takes on an improvisational bent. Poetry with no rules or organizing principles.
What is free verse?
The dogs were still like statues as they waited for food to drop from the table.
What is simile?
The repetition of similar beginning sounds in adjacent words in poetry.
What is alliteration?
The author's creative choice of words or phrases
What is diction?
He has a heart of gold.
What is metaphor?
a long and narrative poem that normally tells a story about a hero or an adventure.
What is an epic poem?
We hear the mellow wedding bells.
What is assonance?
An element in a poem that works to represent a different idea or concept.
What is a symbol?
A group of lines that forms the basic unit of poetry.
What is stanza?
"Pre-owned vehicle" vs. used car
"vertically challenged" vs. short
"passed away" vs. died
What are euphemisms?
A poem that spells out names or words with the first letter in each line.
What is an acrostic poem?
"jumbo shrimp"
"bittersweet"
"clearly confused"
What is oxymoron?
He ran to the cat (A)
But tripped over a cup (B)
Then the cat looked up (B)
She kept sleeping on the mat (A)
ABBA is this poem's_______/
What is rhyme scheme?
Any attempt by a poet to create a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
While I was recovering from my broken leg, my tennis racket took a vacation.
What is personification?
a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?