Sound Devices
Figurative Language
Famous Poets
Types of Poems
Terminology
100
This type of sound device repeats consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of word.
What is alliteration?
100
This type of figurative language uses the words "like" or "as" to compare two things.
What is a simile?
100
This poet is famous for not only his poems, but also his plays. He is so famous he has a style of sonnet named after him as well as one of our poetry teams.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
This type of poem is usually performed in competitions and tends to touch on some sort of social issue.
What is slam poetry?
100
As paragraphs are to prose, this is to verse.
What are stanzas?
200
This type of sound device repeats vowel sound anywhere in a series of words.
What is assonance?
200
This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
200
A native Missouri resident, this poet wrote "I, Too," a poem about equal rights that we analyzed in class.
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
This poem is the most common form of organic poems.
What is free verse?
200
As sentences are to prose, this is to verse.
What are lines?
300
This type of sound device repeats consonant sounds anywhere in a series of words.
What is consonance?
300
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."
What is a metaphor?
300
Known for fun rhymes and semi-serious stories, this poet's famous books include Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up.
Who is Shel Silverstein?
300
A famous love poem, this form always has fourteen lines.
What is a sonnet?
300
This type of poem tends to follow some set of rules, usually to do with rhyming.
What is traditional form?
400
"French fry"
What is alliteration?
400
"It's raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
400
Known for his dark and creepy short stories and poems, this poet is usually associated with ravens.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
400
What is concrete?
400
This pattern is labeled using the alphabet in poetry. Some common forms might include "AABB" or "ABAB."
What is a rhyme scheme?
500
"His tender heir might bear his memory"
What is assonance?
500
"To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden"
What is allusion?
500
Also a native Missouri resident, this Palestinian American from St. Louis write the poem "Kindness" that we analyzed in class.
Who is Naomi Shihab Nye?
500
These poems are some of the oldest published literary works in the world. They are usually novel-length and about a hero.
What is an epic?
500
Using stressed and unstressed syllables, this makes up the rhythm of a poem.
What is meter?