Poetic Techniques
Poetic Techniques
Poetic Techniques
Traditional Forms of Poetry
Wild Card
100

What is a number of lines that divide a poem into sections.

Stanza

100

What is a pattern of rhyme in a stanza or poem.

Rhyme Scheme

100

What technique has a  comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as.”

Similes

100

When does a poem states the sadness about the death of an important person.



Elegy

100

 A _______names a particular person, place, thing, or infra

Proper Nouns

200

When do two or more words have the same sound what is the poetic technique

Rhyme

200

What poetic technique has the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words

Alliteration

200

What Poetic Technique has a comparison of two unlike things with out using “like” or “as.”

Metaphor

200

When a poem does not require meter or rhyme scheme.

Free Verse

200

a _________ is a general name for a person, a place, a thing,or a idea

Common Noun

300

What Poetic technique has the repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry

Assonance

300

What technique has the repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry (but not at the beginning of words)

Consonance

300

What Poetic Technique has to use the page, spaces between words, indention, etc. to create effect in a poem.

White Space

300

Which traditional poem uses the Japanese style poetry which presents a picture of nature.  3 lines long - 5, 7, 5 (syllables)

Haiku

300

A ________ noun is a word that names a group

collective noun

400

What poetic technique gives human qualities to non-human ideas or objects.

Personification

400

What poetic technique has the repeating of a word or phrase in a line or poem.



Repetition

400

What traditional poem uses a verse of five lines.  Lines one, two, and five rhyme, as do lines three and four.  Lines one, two, and five have three stressed syllables; lines three and four have two.



Limerick

500

When do the use of words that sound like the objects or actions they describe.

Onomatopoeia

500

What Poetic technique use a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect.    

hyperbole

500

What Traditional poem uses a fourteen-line poem which states a poet’s personal feelings.  The Shakespearean sonnet follows the abab/cdcd/efef/gg rhyme scheme.  Meter is also important in sonnets.



Sonnet