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Poetic Devices
Types of Poems
What's It For?
Name That Device
Miscellaneous
100
This device compares two things without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor
100
This type of poem sticks to a specific "recipe"
What is formula poetry
100
appeals to the senses to help you "paint a picture"
What is imagery
100
I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow!
What is hyperbole
100
This is one device that Anne Sexton uses in her poem "Courage"
What is *name one*
200
This device gives human qualities to an object
What is personification
200
This type of poem is intended to be funny
What is light poetry
200
emphasizes specific words to draw attention
What is alliteration, assonance, or consonance
200
the air tasted like salt, and I could hear the crashing of the waves
What is imagery
200
Robert Frost's poem "After Apple Picking" is an extended metaphor for this.
What is life & death
300
This device is an overstatement or exaggeration
What is a hyperbole
300
This type of poem tells a story
What is narrative poetry
300
The emphasize an idea or thought. Sometimes used to be comical.
What is hyperbole
300
braying of bragging tongues
What is alliteration
300
This is the name of the type of formula poem we wrote in class
What is a pantoum
400
This device allows for words to imitate the sounds associated with it
What is onomatopoeia
400
this type of poem usually concerns a serious subject with heroic deeds and events significant to a culture
What is epic poetry
400
This poetic device makes objects more relatable to the reader
What is personification
400
My heart is an open ocean filled with life
What is metaphor
400
This is the difference between assonance and consonance
What is the repetition of vowel sounds vs. the repetition of consonant sounds
500
This device is the correspondence of sounds between words or the endings of words.
What is rhyme
500
This type of poetry deals with feelings, emotions, or thought
What is lyric poetry
500
This kind of poetic form is sometimes used to create a dramatic effect
What is blank verse
500
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.
What is rhyme
500
These are 3 of the technical terms for the 5 types of imagery
What is visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, gustatory