Poetic Techniques
Two things that are compared using like or as
What is a simile
A poem with 5 syllables first and third line, and 7 syllables in the second
What is a Haiku
This book weighs a ton is an example of what poetic technique?
What is hyperbole
When two or more words have the same sound
What is Rhyme
Using the page, spaces between words, identification, etc. to create effect in a poem.
What is White Space
The repeated beginning consonants sounds in words
What is Alliteration
A humorous poem that is made of 5 verses. The first, second, and fifth line rhyme, and the third and fourth rhyme
What is a Limerick
The boom of the thunder woke me from my nap. The boom is what kind of poetic technique?
What is Onomatopoeia
The repeating of a word or phrase in a line or poem.
What is repition
A number of lines that divide a poem into sections
A three syllable rhyme is called . . .
A poem about sadness of the death of an important person.
What is an Elegy
What type of poetry doesn't require rhyme or rhyme scheme, and generally don't require the use of stanzas or meter
What is free verse
Giving human qualities to nonhuman ideas or objects
What is Personification
A two syllable rhyme
What is a Double rhyme.
An exaggeration for emphasis or affect
What is Hyperbole
A short poem that expresses personal feelings.
This is an example of what poetic technique? In the summer the sun is strong.
What is alliteration
A comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as”
What is a Metaphor
The use of words that sound like the objects or actions they describe.
What is Onomatopoeia
The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry (but not at the beginning of words)
What is Consonance
A 14 line poem that states a poets feelings. Each line of a sonnet is 10 syllables in length, and every other syllable is stressed
What is a Sonnet
Who was the poet who wrote poems in secret, and her poems were only found after she was dead?
Who is Emily Dickinson
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry
What is assonance
Rhyme that occurs inside the same line is called?
What is Internal Rhyme