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Poetic Devices
Figurative Language
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Rhyme
100
A four line stanza of verse.
What is a quatrain?
100
The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants. Sometimes called a vowel rhyme.
What is assonance?
100
A Japanese verse form of three non-rhyming lines in five, seven, five syllables.
What is haiku?
100
The poet who wrote "We Wear the Mask."
Who is Paul Laurence Dunbar?
100
Rhymes that occur in the same line.
What is an internal rhyme?
200
A termination of a line of poetry and a beginning of a new line.
What is a line break?
200
Something in the world of senses, including action, that reveals a sign for something else, often abstract or otherworldly.
What is symbol?
200
A long narrative poem in which a heroic protagonist engages in an action of great mythic or historical significance.
What is an epic?
200
The poet who wrote a series of sonnets, mostly about love.
Who is William Shakespeare?
200
Words that almost rhyme.
What is a slant rhyme?
300
The rhythmical pattern of rhyme in an entire poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
300
A reference made to a famous person, place, thing, time or event.
What is an allusion?
300
A poem that is visually related to the subject of the poem.
What is a concrete poem?
300
The poet who wrote "The Road Not Taken."
Who is Robert Frost?
300
The pattern of rhyme in a poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
400
A unit of measurement in a metered poem.
What is a foot?
400
Any image that evokes the five sense.
What is sensory image?
400
A poem that is about art.
What is an ekphrastic poem?
400
The poet who wrote "Jabberwocky."
Who is Lewis Carroll?
400
gone and moan are a type of this rhyme.
What is a slant rhyme?
500
Five sets of two-syllable feet in an unaccented/accented pattern. This rhythm was often used by Shakespeare.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
A comparison that is made directly or indirectly without pointing out a similarity by using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
500
A five line poem.
What is a cinquain?
500
The poet who wrote "Dreams."
Who is Langston Hughes?
500
This poetic form does not rhyme.
What is free verse?