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Rhythm and Meter
Comparisons
Poetry Forms
Stanza Bonanza
Potpourri on Poems
100
may, say, lay, day, ray, and faye are examples of this
What is rhyme?
100

Two words to describe the different types of writing for a.) writing an essay and b.) writing a poem

What is a a.) prose and b.)verse?

100

An elaborately structured poems praising or glorifying an event or individual

What is an ode?

100
The way that lines are grouped in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100

Language that appeals to the five senses and shows the reader the scene instead of just telling

What is imagery?

200

Rhyme at the end of poetic lines.

What is end rhyme?

200

A comparison of two items using direct wording (is, was, has). She has a heart of gold, but it's a recipe for disaster.

What is metaphor?

200

A poem that contains characters, conflict, plot.

What is a narrative poem?

200

When you read to the end of the sentence, not just the poem line


What is enjambment?

200
Words that sound like what they mean. Snap, crackle, or pop are examples.
What is onomatopoeia?
300

A type of verse that has a regular rhythm (beat), typically iambic pentameter, but doesn't necessarily rhyme. 

What is blank verse?

300

Saying something is bigger, smaller, worse, or better than it actually is. She scared me to death.

What is exaggeration / hyperbole ?

300
A japanese form of poetry that has only three lines. Line one has five syllables. Line two has seven syllables. Line three has five syllables.
What is haiku?
300

words or phrases that reappear at the beginning of stanzas or at key shifts in the poem

What is anaphora?

300
When a nonhuman object is given human characteristics. The limbs scratching at my window. The wind howling or hollering outside.
What is personification?
400
When a poem does not have any rhyme, a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and adheres to no form.
What is free verse?
400

This is a comparison of two unlike things that goes on for a stanza or even the entire poem.

What is extended metaphor?

400
A fourteen line poem that follows a strict rhyme and line form.
What is a sonnet?
400

A group of 4 lines that contain the same rhythm, number of syllables, and perhaps all rhyme. 

What is a quatrain?

400

Two terms. The dictionary definition versus the associated feeling of a word or phrase.

What is denotation and connotation?

500
Ten syllables in a line -five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
500

Two Terms: The author's attitude toward the character, the subject, or the audience (versus) the vibes or emotion evoked for the audience by the text.

What is tone and mood?

500
A poem that mourns the passing of a person.
What is an elegy?
500
Two lines at the end of a poem that rhymes. These two lines are usually at the end of a sonnet.
What is a couplet?
500

The repetition of vowel sounds in consecutive lines of poetry. Example:  high tide, mighty, mind 

Assonance