What is a poem?
This is the definition from Webster for a poem.
What is a metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction?
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words is also called this.
What is rhyme?
"I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree"
Is an example of this type of rhyme.
What is end rhyme?
This is the repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line.
What is alliteration?
This is a comparison between two usually unrelated things using the word “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
These characteristics are traditionally linked to the left brain.
What are logic and reality?
This is defined as the "beat" of the poem.
What is rhythm?
"My beard grows to my toes,"
This is an example of what time of rhyme?What is internal rhyme?
Theses are words that spell out sounds; words that sound like what they mean.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the definition of a metaphor.
What is an implied comparison between two usually unrelated things?
These characteristics are most often associated with the right brain.
What are creativity and emotions?
These are the most common rhythmic types.
What are iambic, anapestic, trochaic, and dactylic?
This is an example of and iambic foot.
What is an unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable?
This is using the same key word or phrase throughout a poem.
What is repetition?
This is an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
When looking at the clouds, this side ouf your brain tells you, "Hey! That one looks like a bunny.”
What is the right brain?
These are the less used types of rhythm.
What are monosyllabic, spondaic, and accentual?
This is how many feet are in the following line of poetry.
"When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,"
What is 5 feet?
This is the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at the end of a stanza.
What is refrain?
This is when an author gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals for poetic effect.
What is personification?
Recognizing certain devices used within a poem will give the this side of the brain something to concentrate on.
What is the left brain?
The length of a line of poetry is measured in metrical units called this.
What are feet?
This length of poetry is the most common form we study; it contains 5 metric feet.
What is pentameter?
These words go together as one is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables, as in blade and maze, and the other is the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables, as in wind and sand..
What are assonance and consonance?
This is a word or image that signifies something other than what is literally represented.
What is a symbol?