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3 Main Types
Sound Devices
Rhyme
Figurative Language
Potpourri
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These are the three main types of poetry.
What are lyric, narrative & dramatic?
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“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.” This is primarily an example of this sound device.
What is alliteration?
100
Fool might once himself alone expose, Now One in Verse makes many more in Prose. This is an example of these TWO types of rhyme.
What are exact rhymes and end rhymes?
100
This is language meant to be understood symbolically rather than literally.
What is FIGURATIVE language?
100
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is the DENOTATION of a word?
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. This is an example of what kind of poetry.
What is lyric?
200
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.” 'Tapping' is primarily an example of what SOUND device?
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
200
Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know That we riddled two middlemen who didn’t do diddly This is an example of this kind of rhyme.
What is an internal rhyme?
200
The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings. This is an example of what kind of figurative language?
What is a SIMILE?
200
The implied meanings, nuances, and feelings a word gives beyond its dictionary definition.
What is a word's CONNOTATION?
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“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore— Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” This is an example of what kind of poetry.
What is dramatic?
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Great, or good, or kind, or fair, I will ne’er the more despair; If she love me, this believe, I will die ere she shall grieve; If she slight me when I woo, I can scorn and let her go; For if she be not for me, What care I for whom she be? This is primarily an example of what kind of sound device?
What is consonance?
300
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun 
 This is an example of this kind of rhyme.
What is a slant rhyme?
300
“Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?” This is an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
300
These are considered the "paragraphs" of poetry.
What are STANZAS?
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; This is an example of what kind of poetry?
What is narrative?
400
I lie down by the side fo my bride Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese Hear the lark and harden to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground This is an example of primarily this sound device.
What is assonance?
400
Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground 
 This is an example of these TWO kinds of rhyme.
What are EXACT and END rhymes?
400
"She is all states, and all princes, I" This is an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
400
This is the fancy word for the beat of accents, syllables, and rhymes in a line of poetry.
What is METER?
500
This kind of poetry presents a character's point of view and not the author's.
What is dramatic?
500
"Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished in low circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds" This is primarily an example of what sound device?
What is assonance?
500
"Think of me in the depths of your despair, Making a home down there as mine sure won't be shared. This is an example of this kind of rhyme.
What is a SLANT rhyme or a NEAR rhyme (or an OBLIQUE or IMPERFECT rhyme)?
500
“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide.” This is an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
500
A word that takes the place of a noun (its antecedent). These are important to closely examine in every poem. Examples include "he, she, we, you, I, mine, ours, it"...
What are PRONOUNS?