Figurative Language
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of the adjacent or closely connected word.
What is Alliteration
Funny furry ferrets in France frolicking fancily on the ferry.
What is Alliteration
The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem
What is Meter
A story/narrative in poetic form often about a major event
What is a Ballad
A poem that describes an object, written in the shape of the object.
What is Shape
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words such as "like" or "as".
What is Metaphor
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is Allusion
The recurrence of stressed or unstressed sounds in poetry.
What is Rhyme
The author's specific word choice
What is Diction
A poem that expresses feelings using color
What is a color poem
What is Onomatopeia
Each line of a poem begins with a letter of the alphabet
What is ABC poetry
The measured flow of words and phrases in verse or prose as determined by the relation of long and short or stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is Rhythm
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues on to the next line.
What is Enjambment
Three lines 5-7-5
What is a Haiku
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as "like" or"as".
What is Simile
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text
What is Assonance
2 Rhyming Lines
What is a couplet
A unified group of lines in poetry! This is often marked by the spacing between sections of the poem.
What is Stanza
Seven lined poems with first and last lines being the shortest.
What is Diamante
Repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.
a worM naMed Maurice took the garden by storM.
What is Consonance
A poem that is about you!
What is Autobiographical
4 Rhyming Lines
What is a Quatrain
A single line of poetry
What is a Verse
Humorous 5 line poem with AABBA rhyme sequence
What is a Limerick