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Sounds like Poetry!
Structural Integrity
Imagine Imagery
The Form's the Thing
Name that Poet!
100
several words in a row that begin with the same letter or sound
What is ALLITERATION
100
emphasis on a particular word or syllable. Represented with "/" or "u."
What are stresses
100
a direct comparison of two things, using "like" or "as"
What is a SIMILIE
100
a group of lines within a poem, usually 2-6, that rhyme
What is A STANZA
100
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"
Who is William Shakespeare
200
A jumble of sounds that do not flow together
What is DISSONANCE
200
a unit of sound that has stressed and unstressed syllables
What is a metrical foot.
200
exaggeration
What is HYPERBOLE
200
a lyric poem written in 2-6 line stanzas, that reflects on an idea or object
What is HORATIAN ODE
200
"O, wad some Power the giftie gie us"
Who is Robert Burns
300
A word that mimics the sound of the word to which it refers.
What is ONOMATOPOEIA
300
a pattern of 1 unstressed and 1 stressed syllable.
What is an IAMB
300
to give human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas.
What is PERSONIFICATION
300
The moment at which a sonnet "turns"
What is a VOLTA
300
"And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each in natural piety"
Who is William Wordsworth
400
Name the device: "Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge"
What is Cacophony
400
a line of poetry with five metrical feet.
What is PENTAMETER
400
to address something that is absent, an inanimate object, or an abstract idea
What is APOSTROPHE
400
A 14 line poem, divided into an OCTAVO and a SESTET, with an ABBAABBA CDCDCD rhyme scheme.
What is a PETRARCHIAN Sonnet
400
"Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind
Who is Sir Thomas Wyatt
500
Rhyme on words that look like they sound the same, but are pronounced differently.
What is Eye Rhyme
500
a sentence or phrase of poetry that runs over two lines without pause.
What is enjambment
500
to represent something abstract with something concrete
What is SYMBOLISM
500
A style of poetry written in the "common language" of man.
What is ROMANTIC poetry
500
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I- I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.
Who is Robert Frost.