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Rhythm and Meter
Comparisons
Poetry Devices & Forms
Stanza Bonanza
Potpourri on Poems
100
may, say, lay, day, ray, and faye are examples of this
What is rhyme?
100
A comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as, than, or resembles.
What is a simile?
100

A type of alliteration wherein the repeated sound is "s" or "f".

What is sibilance?

100
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?
100
Language that appeals to the senses.

What is imagery?

200

A stanza has four lines.

What is a quatrain?

200
A comparison of two unlike things using being verbs. The cat is a green frog.
What is metaphor?
200

The person who is the narrator of a poem.

What is "the speaker"?

200
The way that lines are grouped in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200

When the weather reflects the emotions / inner world of a character.

What is pathetic fallacy?

300

The rhyme scheme for this poem.

Maud, who went to college,
Is a thin brown mouse.
She is living all alone
In this old house.

What is ABCB?

300

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

What is exaggeration or hyperbole?

300

When the speaker speaks to an inanimate object or absent person as if it / he could respond?

What is apostrophe?

300
Repeating words, lines, or phrases.
What is repetition?
300
Words that sound like what they mean. Snap, crackle, or pop are examples.
What is onomatopoeia?
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

Use of objects, actions, or images to represent abstract ideas.

What is symbolism?

400
A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.

What is a villanelle?

400
When a nonhuman object is given human characteristics. The limbs scratching at my window. The wind howling or hollering outside.
What is personification?
400
Repetition of the same beginning sound in words. Suzy sold seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
500
Ten syllables in a line -five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
500

A mild or gentler word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

What is euphemism?

500
A poem that mourns the passing of a person.
What is an elegy?
500
The author's attitude toward the character, the subject, or the audience.
What is tone?
500

Repetition of similar vowel sounds within nearby words or syllables, contributing to rhythm and flow.

What is assonance?