Sound Devices
The repeating of sounds at the beginning of two or more words in a line or verse.
A three-line Japanese poem, consisting of five, seven, five syllabic structure, and often includes an element of nature.
What is a haiku?
A figure of speech in which two things are compared and shown to have a quality in common; 'like' or 'as' are used to make the comparison.
What is a simile?
A group of lines of verse, usually four or more lines, and sometimes arranged to a fixed pattern; a paragraph of poetry.
What is a stanza?
What is free verse?
A word or phrase that imitates the sound of the thing it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
A five-line poem often consisting of two, four, six, eight, two syllabic structure.
What is a cinquain?
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, without using 'like' or 'as'.
A four-line poem or stanza.
What is a quatrain?
A poem that has the form and musical quality of a song in which the poet often expresses an intense personal feeling.
What is lyric or lyrical poetry?
A strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound.
What is rhythm?
Dr. Suess was famous for this type of poem.
What are rhyming couplets?
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is emphasized for effect.
What is hyperbole?
A poetic form of writing; the expression of feelings and ideas by use of a distinctive style and rhythm.
What is verse?
The central thought or main idea in a poem or story.
What is theme?
The last sound of the line or words are the same.
What is rhyme?
A poem or song that is a tribute to a person, place or thing.
What is an ode?
A figure of speech in which human form or characteristics are given to non-living objects.
What is personification?
The pattern in which rhymes are arranged in the poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
The speech that is characteristic of a particular region or of a class or group of people.
What is dialect?
Shakespeare sonnets have a particular pattern of sounds or syllables per line. How many syllables per line?
What is ten syllables or iambic pentameter?
A narrative poem meant for singing, which is usually passed down from generation to generation; often based on an historical event.
What is a ballad?
This device is often used in poetry and verse, and is often a hint to the theme or main idea of a poem or song.
What is a refrain or repetition?
An Italian word that means "turn" or "pivot"; it marks a change of thought in a poem; for example it can be a surprise, a twist, or a change of point of view.
What is a volta?
The feeling conveyed by the writer's attitude toward the subject of the poem and revealed through word choice and writing style.
What is tone?