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Poetic Devices
Forms
Big Ideas
The Sound of Poetry
Grab-bag
100
Using language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
100
A 14-line poem consisting of three quatrains and a couplet, written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
100
The main idea or comment that a poem makes about the human experience.
What is the theme?
100
The repetition of the same initial consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
100
The refrain from "Bonny Barbara Allan" .
What is "Hardhearted Barbara Allan" ?
200
A comparison that does not use like or as that continues beyond the initial comparison into multiple lines.
What is an extended metaphor?
200
A 5-line poem consisting of exactly 31 syllables, with the first and third lines having five, and the second, fourth and fifth having seven.
What is a tanka?
200
The poem which concerned itself about the different issues that a son and a daughter had regarding their identity.
What is "Same Song" ?
200
This is where the sound that a word describes is the word itself.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A reference to another work within a piece of writing.
What is an allusion?
300
A specific kind of metaphor in which the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the phrase.
What is an idiom?
300
A song or song-like poem written in simple, rustic language, that tells a story. (hint: it often, but not always, has at least two speakers)
What is a ballad?
300
The poem which was in praise to a particularly special pair.
What is "Ode to My Socks" ?
300
This is the pattern of rhymes across a poem.
What is the rhyme scheme?
300
e.e. cummings stated that life was not one of these, referring to the rules of grammar.
What is a paragraph?
400
The narrator of a poem.
What is the speaker?
400
A long poem written in elevated, serious language, that praises a subject.
What is an ode?
400
The only literary ballad we read.
What is "The Ballad of the Landlord" ?
400
This is when a pair of words almost rhyme, but do not rhyme perfectly.
What is near or slant rhyme?
400
A poem that does not tell a story, but instead focuses on the feelings of the speaker.
What is a lyric?
500
This is the repeated word, words, or even whole lines within a ballad.
What is the refrain?
500
Verse written in non-rhyming iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
500
This is what the speaker offered his beloved in "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day."
What is immortality in verse?
500
This is the pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
500
The original writer of the Italian sonnets.
Who is Petrarch?