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Figurative Language
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Poems
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Poetry Potpourri
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Describes one thing as if it were something else.
What is a metaphor?
100
He struck some good luck.
What is rhyme?
100
A three-lined non-rhyming poem with 17 syllables.
What is a haiku?
100
The smallest composition piece of a poem.
What is a line?
100
The country of origin for a haiku.
What is Japan.
200
A phrase of two contradicting words.
What is an oxymoron?
200
There was a rock in that box that was locked.
What is assonance?
200
A poem, written in first person, that describes the speaker's affection for the subject.
What is an ode?
200
The smallest sound part of a word.
What is syllable?
200
The most famous Sonnet poet?
What is William Shakespeare?
300
Giving nonhuman objects human-like characteristics.
What is personification?
300
I made my way to the lake.
What is assonance?
300
A five line poem with a structured rhythm and rhyme pattern.
What is a limerick?
300
The area of the poem that is void of word (left blank).
What is white space?
300
The rhyme scheme of a limerick?
What is AABBA?
400
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
400
The big frog was on a log.
What is consonance?
400
A 14 line poem with a structured rhythm and rhyming pattern.
What is a sonnet?
400
A group of lines
What is a stanza?
400
The name of a poem that takes the shape of the poem's subject?
What is concrete?
500
A phrase that cannot be taken literally.
What is an idiom?
500
The wicked witch of the west.
What is alliteration?
500
A poem that tells a story using stanzas composed of four lines and a "song-like" rhythm.
What is a ballad?
500
Words that repeat within the poem.
What is repetition?
500
The rhythm pattern of a sonnet?
What is iambic pentameter?