Poems and China
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Counting Syllables
Miscellaneous
100
The dog smiled at me and said, "the Chinese are going to take over." And I knew he was right.
Personification
100
A pattern of the number of syllables in each line
meter
100
When words begin with the same letter
Alliteration
100
She was sprinkling them on cupcakes
8
100
RHYME SCHEME
Why don't you swing from monkey bars?
Why don't you wish on falling stars?
Why don't you run in three-legged races?
Why don't you make weird faces?
AABB
200
When two words with opposite meanings are next to each other.
Example: Stupid smart, skinny fat, icy hot, and jumbo shrimp
Oxymoron
200
a division of the poem based on thought or form
stanza
200
An ocean voyage
As waves break over the bow
the sea welcomes me.
haiku
200
The lightning struck the house
6
200
True or False
Poems need to rhyme
FALSE
300
The cow is as big as a giant robot crossing the Pacific.
Simile
300
Rhymes inside of a line
Internal rhyme
300
How old is Mr. Donahue? Older than the hills.
Hyperbole and idiom.
300
The automobile came to an abrupt stop
11
300
What is a symbol? (Think physical and abstract)
A physical object with an abstract (metaphysical - ideas and feelings) meaning.
400
Usually the first noun or pronoun in a sentence
The subject
400
Rhymes between two or more words in the same line
internal rhyme
400
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
There was an Old Man with a beard
Who said, "It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!"
AABBA
400
onomatopoeia is awesome
9
400
The use of sounds that are similar but not exactly the same
approximate rhyme
slant rhyme
500
When something is called something it is literally not.
Example: The bird is a robot from China.
Metaphor
500
two rhyming lines of poetry
couplet
500
I was not happy
with the rain
until my eye caught
five wet leaves --
a mysterious
autumn
watercolor gift
here
on this broken road
Imagery and metaphor
500
Seventh-grade students are the best there is, no cap
12
500
What type of figurative language is used here?
The dog was so old that it had known George Washington.
Hyperbole