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Hodgepodge
Sounds I and II
Meaning I
Meaning II
Forms
100
Boom!
What is onomatopoeia?
100
What is alliteration?
What is the repetition of first letter sounds?
100
Dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
100
Deafening silence/Open secret/Clearly confused
What is oxymoron?
100
No set rhyme, no set rhythm, though it could choose to use a little bit of either without setting them up to repeat.
What is free verse?
200
Turducken, turducken, turducken.
What is repetition?
200
Repetition of vowel and consonant sounds, two words.
What are assonance and consonance?
200
I am like a bird/ I only fly away./ I don't know where my soul is/ I don't know where my home is
What is simile?
200
A poetry line that ends in a period or a comma.
What is end stopped line?
200
Daily Double! Two patterns in poetry: one with two lines rhymed together and one with four lines rhymed in a variety of ways.
What are couplet and quatrain?
300
I like turducken./ I like cauliflower./ I like miserable rainy days./ I like liking.
What is parallelism?
300
The number of feet or beats in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
300
Implied definition of a word, like how "Fire and Ice" uses fire as a stand-in for desire, and ice also represents something.
What is connotation?
300
A line that continues the thought on to the next line.
What is enjambment?
300
A narrative poem that can be sung.
What is a ballad?
400
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,/ But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep.
What is refrain?
400
Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Oom-pa, loom-pa.
What is an iamb?
400
Do, Do you got a first aid kit handy?/ Do, Do you know how to patch up a wound?/ Tell me are you patient, understanding?/ Cause I might need some time to clear the hole in my heart/ and I've tried every remedy/ And nothing seems to work for me
What is metaphor?
400
Bright Star, would I were as stedfast as thou art—
What is end-stopped line?
400
A highly musical verse; expresses feeling of narrator.
What is a lyric poem?
500
I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -/ The Stillness in the Room/ Was like the Stillness in the Air -/ Between the Heaves of Storm ---------give the rhyme scheme.
What is ABCB where B is a slant rhyme?
500
Five iambs in a row. It sounds a lot like normal human speech.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
I've got this icebox where my heart used to be.
What is hyperbole?
500
“April is the cruelest month, breeding"
What is enjambment?
500
Poetry written in unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even numbered syllables accented.
What is blank verse?