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Poetic Form
The Weird Ones
Identification
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100
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
What is alliteration?
100

The pattern of rhyme throughout a poem, represented by letters (ABAB)

What is rhyme scheme?

100
A word that describes a sound and also mimics the sound when the word is spoken
What is onomatopoeia?
100

The bodybuilder's arms were tree trunks.

What is hyperbole/metaphor?

100
The giving of human traits to non-human things incapable of having those traits.
What is personification?
200
She is like the sun so fair.
What is a simile?
200

"And frogs in the pools singing at night, / And wild plum-trees in tremulous white." What type of stanza? 

What is a (rhyming) couplet?

200
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200
The book was a weight, it was so heavy.
What is metaphor?
200

Descriptions that engage the senses.

What is imagery?

300
Clouds are ships which sail the skies.
What is a metaphor?
300
A stanza with four lines

What is a quatrain?

300
The repetition of beginning sound in atleast 2 or more words.
What is alliteration?
300
Boom! Boom! Boom! Mr. Brown can make thunder.
What is onomatopoeia?
300

The comparison of two things using like or as.

What is simile?

400

He has bigger fish to fry!

What is idiom?

400

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

Name the rhyme scheme

ABAB

400

The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a word.

What is consonance?

400
Hey diddle diddle! The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
What is personification?
400

A direct comparison that doesn't use like or as.

What is metaphor?

500
"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
What is assonance?
500

A phrase repeated several times in the poem.

What is refrain?

500
The repetition of sounds WITHIN a word, creating lines that ALMOST rhyme...but not quite.
What is assonance?
500
Like King Arthur, he ruled with strength and wisdom.
What is allusion?
500
When words, items, or images represent an abstract idea or meaning.
What is symbolism?