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Which poet asks his readers to "drop a mouse into a poem and watch it feel its way out?" 

Billy Collins

100
Which literary term means: Repeating the same word, words, or phrases throughout the poem?
Repetition
100

a 14 line poem with a specific rhyme and rhythm sceme.

sonnet

100
The ____________ is the person (or animal or thing) that is speaking in a poem.
Speaker
100
Splash Knock Ring Those three words are all examples of _______________.
Onomatopoeia
100

a musical poem that has a brief, unified impression of a topic

lyric

200

What type of figurative language is in the following:"truth and my lies right now are falling like the rain"?

simile

200
Which literary term compares two or more things without using “like” or “as”?
Metaphor
200
Which literary term refers to the expressive qualities that distinguish an author’s work, including word choice, sentence length and arrangement, and the use of descriptive language and imagery?
Style
200
True or False: The speaker in a poem is NEVER the author of the poem.
False
200
That Three Those The words above are examples of which poetry term?
Alliteration
200

He was an onion. To understand him, she had to peel back the layers.

metaphor

300

Who wrote, "Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe"? 

Lewis Carroll

300

a harsh, disagreeable sound

cacophony

300
Which literary term refers to language that is used for descriptive effect, often to imply meanings indirectly?
Figurative Language
300
_________ ___________ are the elements in poetry that appeal to the ear.
Sound Devices
300
Brick Clock The two words above are examples of which poetry term?
Consonance
300

A funeral song or lament for the dead

elegy

400

What sound device best describes the following: "His tender heir might bear his memory"?

assonance

400
Which literary term refers to descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses?
Imagery
400
The following statement is an example of which poetry term, "If I can’t get a Smartphone, I will die,"?
Hyperbole- an exaggeration
400

What is assonance?

The repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words

400

the choices the poet uses in order to create a musical quality in poetry

melody

400

I thought his movies were better when they weren't so Hollywood

metonomy

500

a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject

ode

500
Which literary term refers to the structure of a poem?
Form
500
Similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperboles are all examples of which poetry term?
Figure of Speech
500

Accent of syllables in the words fall in regular intervals, like the beat of music

rhythm

500

What type of figurative language is revealed in this quote: “me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow"?

antithesis

500

What type of figure of speech is revealed in the following: "O happy dagger! This is thy sheath. Their rust and let me die"?

apostrophe