Poetic Devices
Sue smells like an ocean breeze.
What is simile?
This type of poem can be written in any way the poet chooses.
What is free verse?
A poem's structure includes lines, stanzas, and ____________.
What is rhyme scheme?
A comparison of two things using like or as.
What is simile?
Words that end with the same sounds, usually at the end of lines.
What is rhyme?
The eagle whizzed past us, floating on the breeze.
What is onomatopoeia?
A Japanese poem that has three lines. Line one has 5 syllables, line 2 has seven syllables and line three has five syllables.
What is haiku?
Poems are arranged in _________.
What are lines?
A comparison of two things without using like or as.
What is metaphor?
The repeating of a word or phrase within a sentence or passage for emphasis.
What is repetition?
Paul is a hungry wolf.
What is metaphor?
The way a poem or text makes you (the reader) feel.
What is mood?
In a poem, lines that are grouped together are known as ____________.
What are stanzas?
A type of metaphor in which nonhuman things or ideas are given human qualities or actions.
What is personification?
An obvious or deliberate exaggeration used to emphasize something for humorous purposes.
What is hyperbole?
The car danced across the icy road.
What is personification?
This type of poem will always have three lines
What is a haiku?
A pattern of rhyme that uses the letters of the alphabet to represent sound patterns
What is rhyme scheme?
Words that imitate the sound they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia?
An expression used to call something to mind without mentioning it specifically; an indirect or passing reference.
Ex: Some people are calling me the Tiger Woods of mini golf.
What is allusion?
I'll wait until you give me the green light.
What is symbolism?
This type of poem is a lyrical poem that celebrates a person, event, or object in a formal and elevated style.
HINT: We are reading one for book club.
What is an ode?
The structure of the poem influences the ___________ of a poem.
What is meaning?
The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words in a phrase or sentence.
What is alliteration?
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
What is AABA?