Structure
A single line of text within a poem.
What is a line?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a Simile?
A poem that has a 5-7-5 structure based on Syllables.
What is a Haiku?
A literary and poetic device wherein words are employed to imitate sounds associated with what they describe.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph).
What is a stanza?
The repetition of first consonants in a group of words.
What is alliteration?
A Poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
An over-exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description.
What is a hyperbole?
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables within a line, creating rhythm.
What is meter?
a comparison that does not use the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. Poetry with no set structure.
What is Free Verse?
Creating pictures for the senses (through, e.g., similes or metaphors).
What is Imagery ?
The pattern of rhyming sounds within a poem, often represented by letters to indicate which lines rhyme.
What is rhyme scheme?
A term or phrase that cannot be understood by a literal translation, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is understood through common use.
What is an idiom?
A type of poetic form that has a specific rhyme scheme and is always 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
A reference to a specific person, place, or thing?
What is Allusion?
The rhyme scheme in this stanza: A robin sitting in a tree Turned her head and winked at me, She sang a song as if to say, “I’m glad to see you here today.”
What is AABB?
giving human qualities to an animal, thing, or idea.
What is personification?
A poem containing three elements: a narrator, repetition, and is often about an unhappy experience or an event that happened in the past or a plot-driven song/poem, with one or more characters hurriedly unfurling events leading to a dramatic conclusion.
What is a ballad?
Representation of something complex, general, or abstract?
What is Symbol?