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Rhyming words that are at the ends of their respective lines—what we typically think of as normal rhyme
What is end rhyme?
100
Giving nonliving objects human characteristics.
What is personification?
100
“This chair is a rock,” or ?“I am an island.”
What is metaphor?
100

Screech! Buzz! 

What is onomatopoeia?

100

This chair is a rock.

I am an island.

What is metaphor?

200
The use of words that sound like what they mean.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line.
What is alliteration?
200
An exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200

The sun stretched its lazy fingers over the valley 

What is personification?

200

The pickety fence, the pickety fence.

Do not jump over the pickety fence.

What is repetition?

300
A group of lines in a poem. They act like paragraphs.
What is stanza?
300

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

What is simile?

300

The author’s attitude toward the subject of the work generall characterized as positive or negative

What is tone?

300

An emerald is as green as grass

What is simile?

300

Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee. 

What is internal rhyme?

400
A pair of rhyming lines in a poem often set off from the rest of the poem.
What is couplet?
400
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
What is mood?
400

The flow of the beat in a poem that gives poetry a musical feel

What is rhythm or meter?

400

the light in the fire is a sight

What is assonance?

400

In the long, long night by the log's firelight the lonely lad lay down.

What is alliteration?

500

When a poet (or songwriter) repeats a phrase or small stanza over and over in a poem

What is refrain?

500

The use of description that helps the reader see, hear, smell, taste 

What is imagery?

500

The use of one thing to represent or stand forsomething else

What is symbolism?

500

Yes it's true I am a cat.

When I go out I wear a hat!

What is end rhyme?

500

the bubbles babble on the pebbles

What is consonance?