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Poetry Definitions
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This Type of Poem Is...
What Kind of Poem Am I?
Back to Basics
100
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in words such as "rough" and "ready"
What is Alliteration
100
As I stood there beside the river/ The chill in the air made me shiver
What is End Rhyme
100
This poem contains 17 syllables and is usually used to capture a moment or express a feeling
What is Haiku
100
Falling to the ground,/ I watch a leaf settle down/ In a bed of brown
What is Haiku
100
How many lines are in the following stanza: Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,/ And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,/ Do not go gentle into that good night
What is 3 Lines
200
Exaggeration used to heighten effect
What is Hyperbole
200
His heart is as black as coal.
What is Simile
200
In these poems the second line is two adjectives describing the first line (There are two answers!)
What are Cinquain and Diamante
200
Rodeo/ Loud, Busy/ Roping, Riding, Exciting/ Dozens of horses in the arena/ Stampede
What is Cinquain
200
What is the rhyme scheme in this stanza? Do not go gentle into that good night,/ Old age should burn and race at close of day;/ Rage, rage against the dying of the light
What is aba
300
The exact primary meaning of a word or words
What is Literal Language
300
The hammer hit the nail with a bam, bam, bam.
What is Onomatopoeia
300
This a 7 line poem whose first and last lines have nouns that are opposite each other
What is Diamante
300
There was an Old Man from Nantucket/ Who kept all his cash in a bucket./ His daughter, called Nan,/ Ran away with a man,/ And as for the bucket, Nantucket
What is Limerick
300
What is a refrain?
What is the repetition of a word, phrase or stanza
400
An indirect reference to art, literature, history, etc that the author expects the reader to recognize
What is Allusion
400
Five thousand tongues applauded
What is Personification
400
This type of poem is usually meant to be sung and often times has a refrain
What is Ballad
400
Vacation/ Happy, Fun/ Sleeping, Dancing, Traveling/ Beach, Mountain, Desk, Cubicle/ Boring, Exhausting, Challenging/ Unhappy, Dreary Work
What is Diamante
400
An imaginative response to experience reflecting a keen awareness of language is the what definition of...??
What is Poetry
500
Repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants
What is Assonance
500
Morning is a new sheet of paper
What is Metaphor
500
This type of poem has an aabba rhyme scheme and three of its lines has 8-10 syllables
What is Limerick
500
Oh, from out the sounding cells/ What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!/ How it swells!/ How it dwells/ On the Future! -how it tells/ Of the rapture that impels/ To the swinging and the ringing/ Of the bells, bells, bells,/ Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,/ Bells, bells, bells -/ To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
What is Ballad
500
How many syllables are in this line: Love is the name of the game
What is 7 Syllables