Poetry Devices
A comparison between 2 generally unlike things, they do not use like or as and use is or was
What is a metaphor?
Something that is like a sentence in a poem
What is a line?
A 7 lined poem. That is diamond in shape
What is Diamate?
The beehive was making a loud buzz which also created the dog to bark and it sounded like a ruff.
What is onomatopoeia?
Highwayman
Who is a man typically on horseback who held travelers at gunpoint in order to rob them?
Words that sound like their meaning
What is onomatapoeia?
A stanza that is 8 lines long
What is an octave?
Haiku is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all
What is a Haiku?
When Billie looked at the trailer, she smiled and laughed.
What is consonance?
Haiku is from Ireland
What is false?
It is like a paragraph or poem. It is a group of lines forming a section of a poem
What is a stanza?
A-A-B-B-A
What is a rhyme scheme?
Where the first letter of each line spells a word, usually using the same words as in the title
What is Acrostic?
To the swinging and the ringing of the bells, bells, bells To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
What is repetition?
So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens
What is free verse?
The repetition of initial consonant sounds, in two or more neighboring words or syllables
What is alliteration?
Consisting of 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter, with a particular rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
A brief poem inscribed on a tombstone praising a deceased person, usually with rhyming lines
What is Epitaph?
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese. Free and easy. Make the grade.
What is assonance?
The repetition of end sounds in words
What is rhyme?
An exaggeration used to provide emphasis on a concept or idea.
What is hyperbole?
Stanza 1-3 in a sonnet
What is Quatrain?
A short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines
What is a Cinquain?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
What is meter?
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or line
What is rhyme scheme?