Poem that tells a story using plot, characters, setting and theme.
What is a narrative poem?
100
Refers to the shape and appearance of the poem in lines and stanzas.
What is form?
100
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds and stressed syllables.
What is alliteration?
100
Words not meant in their exact dictionary sense.
What is figurative language.
200
Does not tell a story. Instead it expresses the thoughts and feeling of the poem's speaker.
What is a lyric poem?
200
The basic unit of poetic form is the _____. The group of words...
What is line?
200
The linking of sounds at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
200
The use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Comparing two unlike things without the use of like or as.
What is a metaphor?
300
Type of poem that is usually sung or chanted.
What is a lyric poem?
300
A group of lines the are similar to poems.
What are stanzas?
300
Rhythm or rhyme?
It was many and many a year ago...
What is rhythm?
300
The linking of nearby vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
300
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
400
Tells a story and uses sounds and rhythms to make the story memorable.
What is a narrative poem?
400
The surrounding areas of a poem.
What is a margin?
400
Rhythm or Rhyme?
Ago, know, and show
What is rhyme?
400
What word in the following passage creates alliteration?
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea change...
-from "Full Fathom Five," by William Shakespere
What is doth?
400
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
500
A stringed instrument that a lyric poem is usually read or sung with.
What is a lyre?
500
Something that helps convey or show the meaning or feeling that the poet wants to express.
What is chosen form?
500
Create your own rhyming sentence.
What is any correct example...
500
Name 3 examples of onomatopoeia.
What is any correct example...
500
Name the type of figurative language that the following passage contains.
They catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing floor.
-from "The Village Blacksmith," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow