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Figurative Language
Musical Devices
Rhyme and Meter
Types of Poetry
Other Terms
100
The comparison of two unlike things
What is a metaphor
100
The repitition of consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
100
The type of rhyme which occurs at the end of two lines
What is end rhyme?
100
A long, herioc poem
What is an epic?
100
The person speaking in the poem
What is the speaker
200
The comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is simile
200
The repitition of vowel sounds
What is assonance?
200
When a poem has no structure at all
What is free verse?
200
A type of poem which tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
200
The author's choice of words and word placement
What is diction?
300
When something stands for itself as well as something bigger
What is symolism?
300
The repeating of a word or phrase
What is refrain?
300
When a poem is written in iambic pentameter, but does not rhyme
What is blank verse?
300
A type of poem with dialogue
What is a dramatic poem?
300
What the speaker thinks of what he is speaking about
What is tone?
400
Exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
400
When a word sounds like what it is
What is onomatopoeia?
400
A stanza of four lines
What is a quatrain?
400
A type of poem which is short and emotionally powerful
What is lyric poetry
400
The main idea of the poem
What is theme?
500
Giving non-human objects human characteristics
What is personification?
500
The type of rhyme which occurs inside of a line
What is internal rhyme?
500
10 syllables in a line, alternating between stressed and unstressed syllables
What is iambic pentameter?
500
A type of poem which is written for a funeral
What is an elegy?
500
A stanza made up of eight lines
What is an octave?