Stanzas
Tropes
Genres
Poets
Rhythm
100

This is a stanza, or poetic paragraph, with two lines that rhyme or otherwise have a rhythm.

What is a duo?

100

This trope, or rhetorical imagery, uses like/as/than or other comparison.

What is a simile?

100

This category of verse has 14 lines of poetry.

What is a sonnet?

100

This versifier was also a playwright during the Renaissance.

Who was Sir William Shakespeare?

100

This sonic device echoes throughout the poem in order to create musicality.

What is repetition?

200

This poetic paragraph has three lines.

What is a tercet?

200

This rhetorical imagery does not use like, as, or any other comparison.

What is a metaphor?

200

This type of verse is poetry about poetry.

What is Ars Poetica?

200

This rhymester composed "Alone" during the 1900's.

Who was Poetess Maya Angelou?

200

This is head rhyme.

What is alliteration?

300

This stanza, or poetic paragraph, has four lines.

What is a quatrain?

300

This connotative meaning gives human qualities to nonhuman objects, such as stuffed animals and other inanimate creations.

What is personification?

300

This kind of verse accounts for the inner experiences of the communicator.

What is a lyric?

300

This writer composed "Paradise Lost" during the Early Modern Times.

Who was Poet John Milton?

300

This is vowel rhyme.

What is assonance?

400

Thus poetic paragraph has 6 lines.

What is a sextet?

400

This stylistic device is an object that stands for something else.

What is a symbol?

400

This is poetry set to music.

What is a song?

400

This poet wrote "Rules and Regulations" during the 19th Century.

Who was Sir Lewis Carroll.

400

This is consonant rhyme.

What is consonance?

500

This verse paragraph has 7 lines.

What is a heptad?

500

This rhetorical figure exaggerates.

What is a hyperbole?

500

This is a children's poem that rhymes.

What is a nursery rhyme?

500

This monarch wrote poems in the 1500's.

Who was Queen Elizabeth I?

500

Examples of this echo include but aren’t limited to bat, cat, gnat, and rat.

What is full, or end rhyme?