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Describes one thing as if it were something else
What is a METAPHOR
100
The rhythmical pattern in a poem
What is METER
100
Poetry that tells a story in verse.
What is NARRATIVE
100
Songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance
What is BALLADS
100
A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
What is PERSONIFICATION
200
Gives human qualities to something that is not human
What is PERSONIFICATION
200
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words, as in "speech" and "teach"
What is RHYME
200
A three-line Japanese verse form. 5-7-5
What is HAIKU
200
Poems that are shaped to look like their subjects
What is CONCRETE
200
A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
What is SIMILE
300
Uses "like" or "as" to compare two apparently unlike things
What is SIMILES
300
The use of words that imitate sounds (crash, bang, hiss)
What is ONOMATOPOEIA
300
Anything that represents something else
What is SYMBOL
300
Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme
What is LIMERICKS
300
Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter
What is FREE VERSE
400
The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words, as in slippery slope
What is ALLITERATION
400
The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables, as in "wind" and "sand"
What is CONSONANCE
400
Defined by its lack of strict structure, it has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern
What is FREE VERSE
400
Pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length
What is RHYMING COUPLETS
400
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem (a b a b)
What is RHYME SCHEME
500
The use of any element of language ---a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence---more than once
What is REPETITION
500
The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables, as in "blade" and "maze"
What is ASSONANCE
500
Poetry that expresses thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse
What is LYRIC
500
A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are seperated by spaces
What is STANZA
500
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in spoken or written language
What is RHYTHM