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Swish is an example of a what?
Onomatopoeia
100
What is the beat created by the sounds and words in a poem?
Rhythm
100

The main character or voice in the poem is called?

The Speaker

100

What is a comparison using like or as?

Simile

100
What is the reuse of words or phrases to create a rhythmic or visual effect?
Repetition
200
What is a paragraph like grouping of lines in a poem called?
Stanza
200
What is the pattern of end rhyme used within a stanza?
Rhyme Scheme
200
Sam sells sandwiches on Sunday is an example of what?
Alliteration
200
What is a direct comparison of two unlike things?
Metaphor
200

The time and place in the poem is called?

the setting

300

The leaves on the ground danced in the wind. The brook sang merrily as it went on its way.  This poem has a lot of _____________ in it.

Personification

300
Poor as a church mouse. strong as an ox, cute as a button, smart as a fox. These are all examples of what?
Similes
300
What is the rhyme scheme in the following poem? Flowers Blooming in May, Birds in the sky Flying; Oh This Flower will Smile Today, Tomorrow it will be Dying.
ABAB
300

A short poem that expresses personal feelings?

A Lyric
300

A poem that has not rhythm or ryhme?

Free Verse

400

Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon.

Name the meter:

Iambic pentameter

400

Japanese poem that has 3 lines; with 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables

Haiku

400
What is personification?
Giving human characteristics to something that is non-human.
400

and then something went BUMP!
how that bump made us jump!

Name the meter:

Anapestic dimeter

400
"The ocean danced in the moonlight," is an example of what?
Personification
500

Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death

What meter is this?

Dactylic dimeter

500
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? Evening red and morning grey, Are the signs of a sunny day. Evening grey and morning red, Bring rain on the farmer's head.
AABB
500
"I have a million things to do for homework," is an example of a what?
Hyperbole
500

The attitude writers

take towards their subject is called?


tone

500
And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep Is an example of what?
Repetition