Poetry
Devices
Poetry Structure
Poetry Vocabulary
Poetry Examples
Misc.
100

Tone

What is the attitude of the speaker?

100

A group of lines in a poem, or a verse.

What is stanza?

100

rhyme scheme

What is the pattern of rhymes in a poem assigned letters like AABBCCDD

100

What sound device does this line contain?

And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, 

a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the trick is over.

What is rhyme?

100

personification

What is giving human qualities to something not human

200

Mood

What is the feeling a reader gets

200

Speaker

What is the voice of the poem?

200

Connotations

What are emotional feelings associated with a word like positive, negative or neutral

200

What figurative language is here?

He goes on Sunday to the church, And hears his daughter's voice singing in the village choir, It sounds to him like his mother's voice singing in Paradise!

What is simile?

200

theme

What is the central idea or lesson learned

300

Simile

What is the comparison between two things using like or as?

300
Poet
What is the author of a poem?
300

Figurative language

What is language that expresses ideas or experiences vividly and is not literal

300

What sound device is used to create rhythm? 

Each morning sees some task begin

Each evening sees it close

Each afternoon sees it through

What is repetition?

300

couplet

What is two lines of poetry that rhyme

400

Metaphor

What is the comparison between two things NOT using like or as?

400
Rhyme
What is words ending in the same sounds?
400

Free verse

What is poetry with no set meter, rhyme scheme or pattern

400

Nikki Giovanni wrote "The Drum."

What is the poet?

400

Why are three ways poets create rhythm?

What are repetition, rhyme, rhyme scheme, meter, sound devices like alliteration, line breaks

500

alliteration

What is the repetition of initial sounds in words that are close together like "Sally sells seashells"

500

Meter

What is the pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables or beats in a poem?

500

Repetition

What is repeating words or sounds for meaning?

500

A small boy is the voice, or ________________, of the "Drum."

What is the speaker?

500

What are the differences in connotations between frugal and miserly, or stingy? 

What is frugal has a positive connotation and miserly, or stingy, has a negative connotation.