Sound Devices
Cat and rat
What is rhyme?
Comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as".
What is simile?
As warm as the sun.
What is simile?
The author of a poem.
What is a poet?
A poem that makes the shape of what it is about.
What is a concrete poem?
Buzz
What is onomatopoeia?
Comparing two unlike things by saying one thing is another thing.
What is metaphor?
My dog is a cuddly teddy bear.
Like a sentence in poetry.
A two-line poem that rhymes and has the same number of syllables in each line.
What is a couplet poem?
Wendy walked with William.
What is alliteration?
Giving human-like qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
The leaves danced in the wind.
What is personification?
Like a paragraph in poetry.
What is a stanza?
A poem in which the first letter of each line spells the topic of the poem.
What is an acrostic poem?
She said it
She said it again
She said it again
and again
and again
What is repitition?
A phrase that does not mean exactly what the words say.
What is an idiom?
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is idiom?
Using the five senses to help the reader imagine the poem.
What is imagery?
A four-line poem that has a rhyme scheme.
What is a quatrain poem?
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
Extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
My arms are so tired, they're about to fall off.
What is hyperbole?
The rhyme pattern of a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
A 3-lined poem with the syllables 5-7-5.
What is haiku?