Poetry Review

figurative language

100

Giving a nonhuman human characteristics

What is personification?

200

a direct comparison of two different things

What is metaphor

300

extreme exaggeration

What is hyperbole

400

the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"

What is onomatopoeia

500

the repeated use of the same constant at the beginning of words

What is alliteration

poetic structure

100

the "paragraph" of a poem

What is a stanza?

200

When a line ends with punctuation

What is end-stop?

300

When an idea continues on the next line of a poem

What is enjambment?

400

The name of a stanza with three lines

What is a tercet?

500

Where a poet decides to stop one line and start a new one

What is lineation?

elements of poetry

100

The author of a poem

What is a poet?

200

First, second, third person

What is point of view?

300

Nonliteral language

What is figurative language?

400

The poems message about life or human nature

What is theme?

500

The voice that narrates a poem

What is a speaker?

types of poetry

100

A Japanese poem with three lines and 17 syllables

What is a haiku?

200

A poem with no strict meter or rhyme scheme

What is a free verse poem?

300

A poem with a strict meter but no strict rhyme scheme

What is a blank verse poem?

400

A blank verse poem with 14 lines made famous by William Shakespeare

What is a sonnet?

500

A poem with a strict meter and rhyme scheme

What is a formal poem?

random

100

When a the end of a line rhymes with the end of another line

What is end rhyme?

200

The attitude of the speaker

What is tone?

300

Another word for the structure of a poem

What is form?

400

The repetition of vowel sounds

What is assonance?

500

What is the rhyme scheme?

Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

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