Examples
Buzz! Click! Bang! Sizzle!
What is onomatopoeia?
A musical quality added to poetry
What are sound devices?
The appearance of the words on the page
What is the form?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Heart = love
What is symbolism?
Elsa enjoys eating eggs every day.
What is assonance?
The author's specific word choice.
What is diction?
The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ____ of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.
What is rhythm?
The attitude the poem's narrator takes towards a subject or character.
What is tone?
A group of lines arranged together
What is a stanza?
Wendy walked while talking.
What is alliteration?
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.
What is a theme?
Yellow like the sun
What is simile?
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
What is enjambment?
A single line of poetry.
What is a verse?
Splat!
What is onomatopoeia?
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels in a chunk of text.
What is consonance?
A three lined poem with the syllables 5-7-5
What is a haiku?
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
What is a stanza?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
What is free verse?
She said it again, and again, and again.
What is repetition?
The measured arrangement of sounds/ beats in a poem, including the poet's p placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.
What is meter?
The rain ran down the side of the house
What is personification?
A story / narrative in poetic form?
What is a ballad?
A reference to a well known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art
What is an allusion?