Poetic terms
This is the term for a word that sounds like its meaning. For example: Woof! Swish! Meow! Bang!
What is onomatopoeia?
Identify the poetic technique in this example:
The nine new nuns had neat Nikes.
What is alliteration?
Dripping, glinting, gliding by,
Rainbow-fretted, wrought of breath.
I live only while I fly –
Earth’s rough kiss my sudden death.
What is a soap bubble?
Provide three rhymes for the word "catch."
What are...?
This is an indirect comparison between two things (it uses words such as "like" or "as").
What is a simile?
Identify the poetic technique in this example:
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
What is metaphor OR imagery?
It can not be seen whenever it's there
It fills up a room; it's much like the air.
It can not be touched; there's nothing to hear
It is quite harmless; there's nothing to fear
What is darkness?
Provide three rhymes for the word "monkey."
What are ...?
This is a direct comparison between two things.
What is a metaphor?
Identify the poetic technique in this example:
Man's not hot, never hot
Skrrat (GottiOnEm), skidi-kat-kat
Boom
What is onomatopoeia?
Voiceless it cries,
Wingless it flutters,
Toothless it bites,
Mouthless it mutters.
What is the wind?
Provide three words that alliterate with "knight."
What are (three words that have an n-sound at the start)?
This is what you call it when a poet repeats the same consonant sound in a line of poetry.
What is alliteration?
Identify the poetic technique in this example:
All the little corn flakes were so excited
They were getting to come out and play.
They landed in the milky pool,
And began frolicking away.
What is personification?
First you see me in the grass
Dressed in yellow bright,
Next I'm topped in whiteness pure
Before I fly from sight.
What is a dandelion?
This is the rhyme scheme of this short poem:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are you.
What is ABCB?
This is the term for when a poet creates a picture with words.
What is imagery?
Identify the poetic technique in this example:
I went to town to buy a gown
And took the car. It wasn't far.
What is inner rhyme?
I can be gentle on your skin,
So warm I ease your day.
But rocks are cracked apart by me,
And mountains ground to plains.
And next I'll strongly bear you up,
From the ground I'll raise you high.
Yet then you see me up aloft,
Flying through the sky.
What is water?
This is the rhyme scheme of this poem:
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, “Let us flee!”
“Let us fly!” said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
What is AABBA?