Structure
Poetry for the Mind
Figurative Language
Types of Poems
Poetic Terms
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A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
According to Seth, this person shoots angels because they were trespassing.
What is a farmer?
100
Attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas.
What is personification?
100
What is a haiku?
100
The pattern of similar sounds at the end of lines in a poem.
What is rhyme/rhyme scheme?
200
Part of a poem that recurs at regular intervals.
What is a refrain?
200
The rose that grew out of the concrete.
Who is Tupac?
200
The line below is this term.
"He tackled the opposing player into last week."
What is hyperbole?
200
A poem with 14 lines and a fixed rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
200
The continuation of one line of verse into the next line.
What is enjambment?
300
A break or pause in the middle of a verse
What is a caesura?
300
Who is the captain in "Oh Captain! My Captain!"
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
All of these words could be considered this type of figurative language.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
A mournful poem usually revolving around the death of something.
What is an elegy?
300
If you think about building sand castles at the beach, when someone says the word vacation, you are using this term.
What are connotations?
400
The highlighted line is inversed, which makes it this poetic term.
What is a chiasmus?
400
The worth of an orange for Gary Soto.
What is five cents?
400
The highlighted line is this type of figurative language.
What is synecdoche?
400
A lyric poem with complex stanza forms.
What is an ode?
400
Beowulf, an epic poem, was famous for using this common technique. See the example below.
“for fear of a feud were forced to disown him”
What is alliteration?
500
This line from Taylor Swift has unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables, which makes it this poetic term.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
The difference between the Mora family and turistas.
What is money?
500
All of these are this poetic term:
"Back to the future"
"The sounds of silence"
"Dead man walking"
What is an oxymoron?
500
"The Odyssey" and "The Illiad" are both this type of poem.
What is an epic?
500
The highlighted letter sounds.
What is assosance?