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A type of literature that uses sounds, rythms, and meaning of words to describe the world creatively.
What is poetry?
An extreme exaggeration for emphasis.
What is a hyperbole?
The rythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
When the ending sound of the words are the same.
What is a rhyme?
A poem with no rhyme scheme or really anything else.
What is a free verse?
A poem that looks like the subject of the poem.
What is a concrete poem?
Using words to create images in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
A word that gives human-like characteristics to inanimate objects or living things that are not human.
What is personification?
Lines that are often turned into songs.
What is a lyric?
Comparing two unrelated things using like or as.
What is a simile?
The literal dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
A group of lines that seperate ideas.
What is a stanza?
A longer poem that tells a story in verse.
What is a narrative?
Comparing two unrelated things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The suggested meaning.
What is connotation?
Using the same key word or phrase throughout a poem.
What is repetition?
An actual thing representing an idea or other thing.
What is a symbol?
The repetition of one or more phrases or lines at the end of a stanza.
What is a refrain?
One or more words.
What is a line?
Lengthy poems that tell the tale of something epic.
What is a ballad?
A three-line Japanese poem related to nature.
What is a haiku?
A five line poem with a rhyme scheme of AABBA; funny.
What is a limerick?
Words that spell out sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A reference to something historical or to another literature piece.
What is allusion?
The repetition of the initial sound in two or more words in a line.
What is alliteration?