Consonance, Assonance or Alliteration?
Meter and Rhythm
Types of Poems
Rhyme Schemes
Poetic Devices
100

Liberal libations lead to nothing but low energy and lots of regret. 

What is alliteration?

100

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

What is iambic pentameter?

100

Very long poems about the deeds of heroes and gods.

What is an epic?

100

When the last words of two or more lines rhyme.

What is an end/external rhyme?

100

Bang! Pop! Pow!

What is onomatopoeia?

200

Nice bicycles for drive-in movies.

What is assonance? 

200

Tell me not in mournful numbers

What is trochaic tetrameter?

200

14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter.

What is a sonnet? 

200

When the last words in two lines almost rhyme, or, when written out, look like they could rhyme.

What is a slant/near rhyme?

200

When making a comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as". 

What is a metaphor? 

300

Alligators and altos have lots in common. 

What is consonance?

300

Gossiping grasshoppers.

What is dactyl dimeter?

300

A story about love, usually tragic and passed down orally from bards.

What is a ballad?

300

I am making a test

Because I'm not sure, maybe, 

Not all my students are at their best

But with this test they should be ready!

What is abab?

300

When a line is broken without finishing a sentence with proper grammar or punctuation.

What is an enjambment? 

400

Piggly wiggly higgeldy piggeldy hickory dickory dock. 

What is assonance?

400

And the sound of a voice that is still

What is anapestic trimeter?

400

the wind of Fuji
I've brought on my fan
a gift from Edo

What is haiku?

400

When two words in the same line rhyme.

What is an internal rhyme?

400
"This poetry test won't be for, like, a million years! Why should I have to study?"

What is hyperbole?

500

He moved quickly through the cloudy night, 

Up from his swampland, sliding silently

Toward that gold-shining hall.

What is alliteration?

500

This is the forest primeval, the murmuring pine and the hemlocks

What is dactylic hexameter?

500

There once was a baby named Lou, 

And he grew and he grew and he grew 

And he grew and he grew 

And he grew and he grew, 

But he stopped when he reached six foot two.

What is a limerick?

500

A four-line stanza that has an abab rhyme scheme.

What is a heroic quatrain?

500

"Oh, Sun: my old friend. You extend your fingers through my blinds every morning, gently waking me up."

What is apostrophe?