Elements of Poetry
Sounds of Poetry
Reading a poem
Figures of Speech
General poetry terms
100
What is a poem called that tells a story. An epic and ballad are included in this type of poetry.
Narrative poem
100
What is a sound of poetry that uses repetition of consonant sound in words that are close together.
Alliteration
100
What is the minimum number of times that a poem needs to be read?
two times
100
What is a figure of speech makes a comparison and uses words such as like, as, than, or resemble?
simile
100
What is it called when the action of a plot is interrupted to tell what happened at a earlier time.
Flashback
200
What is poetry that has no regular rhythm or rhyme.
Free verse
200
What is the sound of poetry is the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables that follows? Types of this sound of poetry are exact, slant and end.
Rhyme
200
What are two punctuation marks that you should stop at when reading poetry?
semicolons and periods
200
What is a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is compared to another thing?
metaphor
200
What is it called when clues are used to suggest events that will happen at a later date?
Foreshadowing
300
What is a poem that expresses the speaker's feelings.
Lyric poems
300
What is the recurring of a sound, word, a phrase or a line which creates music, appeals to our emotions, and emphasizes important ideas.
Repetition
300
What punctuation mark should you pause at when you are reading poetry.
comma
300
What is a figure of speech in which a nonhuman or nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive.
Personification
300
What is language that appeals to the senses? This can create pictures in your mind by appealing to the sense of sight, and the other senses.
Imagery
400
What is a poem that mourns the loss of something.
What is ellegy
400
What is the use of words whose sounds echo their meaning.
Onomatopoeia
400
In what tone of voice should poetry be read?
Normal
400
What are exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?
Hyperbole
400
What is a contrast between what is said or written and what is meant. Ex. If you called someone who failed a math test and Einstein
Verbal Irony
500
What is a lyric poem that follows very strict rules and has 14 lives.
Sonnet
500
What is the sound of poetry which refers to the rise and fall of our voices as we stress some sounds more strongly than others.
rhythm
500
What punctuation indicates a change in thought?
Dashes
500
What is a figure of speech that uses the construction of words or a phrase that means something different than what the words are literally saying. Ex. A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush:
Idiom
500
What are a group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit in a poem?
What is a stanza.