Poetic devices
A comparison using like or as
What is simile
The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines.
What is rhyme?
The war poet who was never involved in actual fighting but died of a mosquito bite
Who is Rupert Brooke?
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph).
What is stanza?
The repetition of first consonants in a group of words.
What is alliteration
The rhyme scheme in this stanza: A robin sitting in a tree / Turned her head and winked at me, / She sang a song as if to say, / “I’m glad to see you here today.”
What is AABB?
Poet wrote these lines: " Half a league, half a league, / Half a league onward, / All in the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred."
Who is Alfred Lord Tennyson?
A closed form in poetry which has 14 lines
What is a sonnet?
a comparison that does not use the words like or as
What is metaphor?
Using words that don't fully rhyme
What is half/slant rhyme?
The poet who wrote "In Flanders Fields"
Who is John McCrae
The number of lines in the first stanza of a Petrarchan sonnet
What is eight?
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry
What is assonance?
The pattern of rhyme, usually indicated by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each rhyme at the end of a line of poetry.
What is rhyme scheme?
The poet who wrote the lines: "I knew a simple soldier boy/Who grinned at life in empty joy,"
Who is Siegfried Sassoon?
What is free verse?
The running over of a line or thought into the next line without a strong break or pause
What is enjambment/run-on line?
The use of words which imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
The missing words in this line from Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est: "........ An ecstasy of fumbling
What is "Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!"?
A pair of successive lines of verse which typically rhyme and are of similar length