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Figurative Language
Sound Devices
Forms of Poetry
Examples
Poetry Potpourri
100
Compares two or more unlike items without using the words "like" or "as"
What is metaphor?
100
Using any element of language - a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence - more than once. For example: moon, June, spoon, croon
What is repetition?
100
is a three-lined Japanese verse, the first and third lines have five syllables and the second one has seven syllables.
What is a haiku?
100
She snapped and popped her gum in my ear.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
How lines are divided and then grouped in poems
What are stanzas?
200
Any object that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
200
Is the use of words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Poetry that is defined by its lack of strict structure. It has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern.
What is free verse?
200
"Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells" or "Silent Night, Silent Night"
What is repetition?
200
The rhythmical pattern in a poem.
What is meter?
300
Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally. Poets use it to state ideas in new ways.
What is figurative language?
300
Is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
300
Poems that are shaped to look like their subjects.
What is concrete poems?
300
The repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
300
Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme.
What is a limerick?
400
Gives human qualities to something that is not human.
What is personification?
400
the pattern of end rhymes in a poem, such as A-A-B-B
What is a rhyme scheme?
400
Are pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length.
What is rhyming couplets?
400
speech and teach
What is rhyme?
400
Central idea of a poem or a work of literature
What is a theme?
500
Uses "like" or "as" to compare two or more unlike things.
What is a simile?
500
Language that appeals to the five senses (touch, sight, smell, hearing, taste)
What is sensory language
500
Poetry that tells a story with a plot and characters.
What is a narrative poem?
500
The house was a zoo.
What is a metaphor?
500
Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often put to music; the words to a song
What is a lyric?