a comparison between two things that does not use the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
A group of lines in a poem that are considered a unit
What is a stanza?
100
The person who authors(writes) a poem
What is a poet?
100
The rain strolled in casually, in no rush to arrive or depart.
What is personification?
200
The use of a key word, phrase, sound or line more than once
What is repetition?
200
A description of an object, animal, or idea as if were human or had human-like qualities and reactions.
What is personification?
200
The voice that "talks" to readers- similar to the narrator in a prose writing.
What is the speaker?
200
An extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
200
The dog moved faster than the speed of light!
What is hyperbole?
300
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words, as in thing and sing.
What is rhyme?
300
A comparison between two things using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
300
The way an entire poem looks on a page.
What is form?
300
Phrases that appeal to the reader's senses- touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing
What is sensory language?
300
Identify the rhyme scheme:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
a host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
What is
ABABCC
400
Techniques used by poets to make music or a beat, to emphasize ideas, or to remind the reader of the subject
What are sound devices?
400
A type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions by choosing language for its meaning, sound and rhythm.
What is poetry?
400
a 4-line stanza
What is a quatrain?
400
While I nodded, nearly napping
suddenly there came a tapping
2 poetic devices
What is alliteration (nodded, nearly, napping)
and rhyme (napping, tapping)
500
The pattern of rhyming sounds in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
500
Written or spoken language in its ordinary form without poetic structure
What is prose?
500
An expression where the literal meaning of a phrase is different from the figurative meaning
What is an idiom?
500
That test was so easy, it was like taking candy from a baby!