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A repeated line or stanza
What is a refrain?
A poem that mourns the passing of something.
What is an elegy?
14 line poem that follows strict rules of structure, meter, and rhyme.
What is a sonnet?
The attitude the speaker takes toward a subject.
What is tone?
Giving something not human - human qualities.
What is personification?
A 2-line stanza.
What is a couplet?
Songlike poem that tells a story. This is often a sad story of betrayal, death, or loss.
What is a ballad?
Expresses feelings and emotions.
What is a lyric poem?
When a word sounds like the sound it makes such as Bam! or Boom!
What is an onomatopoeia?
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
A group of lines that form a poetic unit.
What is a stanza?
A long narrative poem. This type of poem typically tells of the great deeds of heroes.
What is an epic?
A form of poetry that has five lines and follows an AABBA rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
Repetition of consonant sounds - can be in any part of the word.
What is consonance?
A form of comparison that directly compares two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
This type of poem has no pattern or consistent rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
Vowel sounds that are repeated.
What is assonance?
Using opposite words to make a point such as icy hot.
What is an oxymoron?
Repetition of a sound occurring in a particular pattern.
What is meter?
A long, lyric poem usually praising and celebrating a subject.
What is an ode?
The type of poem Shakespeare typically wrote.
What is a sonnet?
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
Comparisons between unlike things.
What are figures of speech?