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What is a comparison of two unlike words using like or as?
A simile
100
What is "Sally sells seashells by the sea shore?
Alliteration
100
What is "perfectly wrong?"
Oxymoron
100
What are poems that don't follow any set rules?
Free Verse
100
What is the use of a word, phrase, or line more than once?
Repetition
200
What is an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words? EX: "She just tossed her cookies! Ew!"
Idiom
200
What is a pair of successive lines of poetry that rhyme and are the same length.
Couplet
200
What's a type of narrative poem that tells a story and that was originally meant to be sung or recited?
Ballad
200
What's the way a poem's words and lines are laid our on the page?
Form
200
What are groups of lines in a poem? EX: My dog has a special twist, She can't go a day unkissed. She's not a normal dog, Her furs the color of a log
Stanza
300
What's a pair of two pairs that have a similar relationship?
Analogy. Extra point if you can give an example!
300
What is poetry that follows strict rules? EX: Haiku
Traditional or structured poetry
300
What are words that are made up or real whose sounds suggests their meaning?
Onomatopoeia
300
What's the repetition of sounds at the end of words? EX: Fly and Sky
Rhyme
300
What type of language appeals to the five senses?
Imagery
400
What's a comparison of two unlike things using like or as?
Metaphor
400
What word completes this analogy: Ring is to shine as mouse is to _____________ ring : shine :: mouse : _____________
Squeak
400
What poem goes, "da Dum da da Dum da da Dum"?
Limerick Extra point: How many lines? What's the rhyme scheme?
400
What is this statement an example of? "I've walked a million miles!"
Hyperbole
400
What's the repetition of two or more vowel sounds?
Assonance
500
What's a description of an object, an animal, a place, or an idea as if it were human or giving it human like qualities?
Personification
500
What's the poem that originated in Japan?
Haiku Extra point - How many lines? How many syllables?
500
What's the recurring pattern of strong and weak stresses on words. This creates a "sing-songy" feel.
Rhythm
500
"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" is an example of what?
Assonance
500
What is it called what you sue creative comparisons in poems to help a reader picture ordinary things in new ways?
Figurative Language