Figurative Language
Imagery
Poetic Structure
Poetic Forms
Sound Devices
100

Compares two things using "like" or "as".

Simile

100

The golden rays of sun shone through the window. 

Visual

100

4 lines of poetry is called what?

Quatrain

100

The first letter of each line spells out a word or message.

Acrostic

100

Focuses on the repetition of consonants.

Consonance

200

Gives human characteristics, emotions, and behavior to animals and inanimate objects. 

Personification

200

The trees rustled in the wind.

Auditory

200

6 lines of poetry is called a what?

Sestet

200

Does not rhyme or have a rigid structure. 

Free Verse

200

A word that represents a sound in the poem. 

Onomatopoeia

300

It's raining cats and dogs is an example of what?

Hyperbole

300

The stench of rotting garbage was overwhelming and made the girl sick to her stomach.

Olfactory

300

5 lines of poetry is called what?

Cinquain

300

Lyrical poem of 19 lines with only 2 rhymes repeated throughout. 

Villanelle

300

Repetition of vowel sounds.

Assonance

400

I was so fast, I was the blur. 

metaphor

400

Her mouth watered as the taste of the sour candy hit her tongue.

Gustatory

400

Lines usually broken with a comma, period, semicolon, or other punctuation. A brief pause.

End-stopped

400

A formal or ceremonious poem that focuses on a person, place, thing, or idea.

Ode

400

Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Alliteration

500

Cat got your tongue is an example of what?

Idiom

500

The payment steamed as the rain fell upon the road. 

Visual

500

A strong pause or stop within a line. Causes a longer pause for effect or reflection. 

Caesura

500

Long, grand narrative poem. Tells the heroic journey of a person or group.

Epic

500

When two words at the end of two lines sound similar.

Rhyme