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Poetic Forms/Genres
Identifying Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Elements of Poetry (terms)
Analyze This
100
A humorous or nonsense poem
What is a limerick
100
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase meaning one kind of object or idea is used in place of a another to suggest a similarity between them.
What is a metaphor?
100
Words that add meaning and intrest to a poem
What is a sound device?
100
A symbolic narrative in which the main details imply another meaning.
What is an allegory?
100
This is an example of this type of poem; "Falling to the ground I watch a leaf settle down In a bed of brown"
What is a haiku?
200
A 14 line poem.
What is a sonnet?
200
A figure of speech in which things are compared using 'like' or 'as'
What is a similie?
200
Rhythm, Rhyme, Repetition
What is the three "r's" of sound devices?
200
The means by which writers present and reveal their charaters.
What is characterization?
200
This is an example of this type of poem; "She acted like a loon and kissed a racoon"
What is a couplet?
300
A 5-7-5 syllable poem about nature.
What is a haiku?
300
This is an example of this type of speech; "The trees danced."
What is personification?
300
The repitition of initial sounds of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is alliteration?
300
The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work.
What is imagery?
400
A long narrative poem that tells of the adventures of a hero of historic or legendary importance.
What is an epic?
400
This is an object that stands for another object.
What is a symbol?
400
The repitition of the same consonant sounds at the end of stressed syllables, but with different vowel sounds.
What is a consonance?
400
Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
What is a blank verse?
500
A 4-line poem or stanza, usually united by meter and rhyme.
What is a quatrain?
500
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an object or an action.
What is an onomatopoeia
500
The rhythmically significant stress in the articulation of words, giving some syllables more relative prominence than others.
What is accent?
500
A pair of rhyming lines that may or may not consistitute a seperate stanza ina poem.
What is couplet?