Sound devices
The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words.
What is Alliteration?
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
A 14-line poem, often written in iambic pentameter, with a specific rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet?
English playwright, poet, and actor. Most famous for Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
What is a Stanza?
The repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words.
What is Assonance?
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
What is a Metaphor?
a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables
What is a Haiku?
American poet. Most famous for The Road Not Taken.
Who is Robert Frost?
Poetry that doesn't rhyme but follows a specific meter, usually iambic pentameter
What is a Blank verse?
Language that appeals to the senses, creating vivid mental pictures
What is Imagery?
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract concepts.
What is Personification?
poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
What is a Ballad?
American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. Most famous for And Still I Rise.
Who is Maya Angelou?
Two lines of verse that form a single idea, which can be rhymed or unrhymed
What a Couplet?
Words that imitate natural sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
An exaggeration used for emphasis or effect.
What is Hyperbole?
a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba
What is a limerick?
American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. Most famous for the Raven.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A reference to another text, event, or figure, often from history, mythology, or literature.
what is Allusion?
The pattern of end rhymes in a poem
What is Rhyme Scheme?
statement that appears to contradict itself but contains some truth, theme, or humor.
What is a Paradox?
a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout
What is a Villanelle?
American poet. Most famous for "Hope" is the thing with feathers.
Who is Emily Dickinson.
The continuation of a sentence or phrase beyond the end of a line or stanza, without a pause.
What is Enjambment?