Poetry Devices
The repetition of vowel sounds (mad hatter)
What is Assonance?
A poem consisting of three lines usually about nature
What is Haiku?
The term for two words that don't technically rhyme, but are very close.
What is a slant rhyme?
The type of poem for "Poor little pet dog. At home alone, all day long. Sleeping all day long."
The term for "The wind howled about my window that February night."
What is personification?
Sounds such as "boom" "buzz" "crunch"
What is onomatopoeia?
The term for a song like narrative poem, usually featuring rhyme, rhythm, and refrain
What is ballad?
The number of beats in a line of poetry
What is meter?
Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through
What is slant rhyme?
Haiku is from
What is Japan?
The term for "She is such a smart cookie"
What is idiom?
The term for a poem consisting of 5 lines with a focus on the number of syllables per line
What is cinquain?
The term that would represent "He shall no longer be/a visitor to the sea."
What is rhyme?
The rhyme scheme for limerick
What is a-a-b-b-a?
The term for a poem that has no rhyme or regular meter
What is free verse?
The term for "She was like a rainy Sunday"
What is a simile?
The term for a poem consisting of 5 lines with a focus on stressed and unstressed syllables that is usually humorous
What is limerick?
The term for repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis
What is repetition?
What is Assonance?
A group of lines that form a division of a poem
What is stanza?
The term that does not use "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
The term for a poem consisting of 7 lines that centers on a distinct contrast
What is Diamante?
When two words sound the same, especially at the end of each line
What is Rhyme?
The term for "The soft sound of sea soothed my troubled soul."
What is alliteration?
A stanza that consists of 3 lines
What is tercet?