Definitions
Types of Poems
Figurative Language
100

A group of lines within a poem

What is a stanza?

100

5 syllables

7 syllables

5 syllables

What is a haiku

100

What is this phrase an example of?


"The flowers begged for water"

Personification

200

Repetition of consonant sounds

What is alliteration?

200

A poem that starts with 9 syllables and works its way down to one

What is a nonnet

200
What is the term for when a poem creates a mood or setting through its words?

What is imagery?

300

When a non human object or idea is given human characteristics or abilities

What is personification?

300

A poem to something you love 

What is an ode?

300

"John’s answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution."


What two things are being compared in this metaphor?

Answer and Band-Aid

400

A comparison between two things that uses the words like or as.

What is a simile?

400

A poem with a rhyme scheme like this ABCDEEFGGHIJKLKMNM is called?

Irregular rhyme scheme

400

First person to raise their hand and come up with a simile

..............

500
A comparison between two things without using like or as.

What is a metaphor?

500

A poem in the shape of a diamond

What is a diamante poem?

500

Identify the Rhyme Scheme:


Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

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