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Types of Poems
Devices One
Mechanics
Devices Two
Analysis
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A short poem the expresses the private emotions or thoughts of the writer. Originally, meant to be sung.
What is a Lyric poem?
100
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is Alliteration?
100
The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern.
What is Rhythm?
100
Example: "Bang, crash, or sizzle".
What is Onomatopoeia?
100
Indirect or passing reference to some person, place, or event. Example: The poem 'The Child Who Walks Backwards'.
What is Allusion?
200
Written with a variety of rhythm and can have lines that rhyme. Few restrictions.
What is Free Verse?
200
A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.
What is Cliche?
200
A word, line, phrase, or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza.
What is Refrain?
200
A combination of two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox. Example: "Living Dead".
What is Oxymoron?
200
Language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense. Example: hyperbole, metaphor, personification.
What is Figurative Language?
300
A narrative poem that tells a story, often in a straightforward and dramatic manner and often about love, honour, and courage.
What is a Ballad.
300
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration for effect?
What is Hyperbole?
300
The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear closely to one another in a poem.
What is Rhyme?
300
The giving of human attributes to inanimate objects.
What is Personification?
300
Not the author, but the narrator of the poem.
What is the Speaker?
400
A 14 line poem with a highly structured rhyme scheme. Written in iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote many of these.
What is Sonnet?
400
A notable difference between appearance and reality. Example: ''Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink"
What is Irony?
400
A pattern of rhymes in a poem
What is Rhyme Scheme?
400
A comparison of two things through the use of specific word of comparison, such as like, as, than, or resembles.
What is Simile?
400
Anything that stands for or represents something other than itself. Example: 'The King of Pain'.
What is a Symbol?
500
Written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Mimics the natural rhythm of English speech.
What is Blank Verse?
500
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are fundamentally dissimilar.
What is Metaphor?
500
A segment with the formal pattern of a poem, distinguished by clearly indicated divisions. Poetic paragraphs.
What is Stanza?
500
An apparently self-contradictory statements that is in fact true.
What is Paradox?
500
The general feeling of a piece of poetry. Demonstrates the writer's attitude.
What is Tone?