Poetrypalooza
You can say that again!
I learned this in middle school!
Sounds familiar, but I can't quite remember
100

A literary device characterized by identical or similar sounds at the end of words.

What is rhyme?

100

The act of doing or saying something again.

What is repetition?

100

A person, place, thing or event that figuratively represents or stands for something else; often the thing or idea represented is more abstract and general, and this thing is more concrete and particular.

What is a symbol?

100

Word order: the way words are put together for form phrases, clauses, and sentences.

What is syntax?

200

The basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem. It is often measured by the number of syllables and the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

What is meter? 

200

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of adjacent pr nearby words to emphasize those words and their associations or representations. 

What is alliteration?

200

Sensory language designed to evoke the sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell associated with an object, feeling, or idea. Many students like to write about this by saying, "The author paints a vivid picture..." (Don't do that, btw).

What is imagery?

300

A poem made up of fourteen lines; traditionally about love or mortality. Shakespeare's traditionally end in a rhyming couplet

What is a sonnet?

300

 A repeated line, stanza, or chorus that recurs throughout a poem or song.

What is a refrain?

300

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. 

What is personification?

400

A line of poetry that contains or concludes a complete clause and often ends with terminal punctuation.

What is an end-stopped line?

400

The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines.

What is anaphora?

400

Uses the word, "like" or "as" to liken two objects or concepts to each other to transfer the traits or qualities of one to the other.

What is a simile?

500

The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line to the next without terminal punctuation.

What is enjambment?

500

The repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive lines.

What is epistrophe?

500

A direct comparison between two unlike things that equates one with the other.

What is a metaphor?