Figurative
Language
Types of
Poems
Unit 3
Vocab
Poetry
Words
Rhyme
It Up!
100

A word that is used for sounds

What is an onomatopoeia?

100

A four line stanza

What is a quatrain?

100

(starts with G) Word that means "sparkling or shining"

What is glinting?

100

A single sentence or phrase in a poem

What is a LINE?

100

True or False?- The words "fine" and "sign" rhyme. 

True

200

A phrase that compares two or more things and uses the words like or as.

What is a simile?

200

A poem with no structure or rhyming rules

What is free verse?

200

(Starts with P) Word that means "to understand or see".

What is perceive?

200

A person who writes poems

What is a poet?

200

True or False?- The words "bat" and "back" rhyme. 

False

300

A phrase that compares two or more things but does NOT use like or as.

What is a metaphor?

300

A 5 line poem that includes a specific number of nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc.

What is a cinquain?

300

(starts with V) A Word that means "extremely big".

What is vast?

300

A "paragraph" in a poem

What is a stanza?

300

Words that end in the same sound or sounds

What is rhyme?

400

An exaggeration: Saying something is "grander" than it really is

What is a hyperbole?

400

A style of poem from Japan that only has 3 lines, and has a certain number of syllables on each line (5-7-5). 

What is a haiku?

400

(starts with L) A talk, usually given by a teacher or other expert, on a single topic

What is a lecture?

400

Repeating certain words in a poem

What is repetition?

400

The pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem

What is rhyme scheme?

500

Giving human traits and actions to a non human thing

What is personification?

500

A poem about the craft of poetry

What is ars poetica?

500

(starts with A) A word that means "belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence". 

What is ancient?

500

The space between stanzas

What is a stanza break?

500

The use of the same beginning sounds within the same line or stanza (example: tongue twisters)

What is alliteration?