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This is the rules for arrangement of the words and lines in a poem.

What is poetic form?

100

This gives non-human things the qualities or actions of a person

What is personification?

100

Poems are made up of these. They may consist of only one word or may a whole sentence.

What are lines?

100

"Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells" These lines from "Birches" in Robert Frost are an example of this sound device.

What is alliteration?

100

"My love is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June : My love is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune." In this excerpt from Burns' "A Red, Red Rose" the reader sees this kind of figurative language repeated.

What is simile?

200

This kind of poetry does not have consistent meter, rhyme, or arrangement

What is open form poetry?

200
“Twinkle, twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.” This poem uses this kind of figurative language.
What is simile?
200
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200

This is the repetition of the same or similar sounds in a poem.

What is rhyme?

200

This is the difference between similes and metaphors.

What is "Similes compare two things using like or as while metaphors compare two things not using like or as"?

300

This kind of poetry uses the form of 5-7-5 (the number of syllables in each line).

What is a haiku?

300
This imitates the sound of the word it is describing

What is onomatopoeia?

300

This is the organization of words and lines in a poem and the meter.

What is poetic structure?

300
This is the pattern that end rhyming words follow. To identify this, a reader should assign a letter (a, b, c, etc.) to each new rhyme in the poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
300

"The teapot sang as the water boiled/" This line is an example of this poetic device.

What is personification?

400

Shakespeare is famous for this type of poem that consists of 14 lines.

What is a sonnet?

400

"When my mom sees my grades, she is going to murder me and bury my body underneath the school." This is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is hyperbole?

400
This is the "voice" of a poem and is separate from the poet.
What is the speaker?
400
This is a regular pattern of rhythm and consists of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line.
What is meter?
400

Poetry is the opposite of this.

What is prose?

500

Sonnets are usually about this topic.

What is love?

500

"Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul" In this Emily Dickinson's poem, she uses this figurative language. 

What is metaphor?

500

This is the speaker's attitude toward a subject expressed in a poem.

What is tone?

500

Rhythm consists of _______ and ________ syllables.

What is stressed and unstressed?

500

"My 73-year-old grandmother is a dinosaur," is an example of this figurative language.

What is a metaphor?