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A comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
The cloud yawned
What is personification?
100
Three-lined Japanese poetry that presents a picture of nature.
What is haiku?
100
Language that appeals to your senses is called ____________.
What is imagery?
100
As the wind does blow Across the trees, I see the Buds blooming in May
What is a haiku?
200
Repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of several words.
What is alliteration?
200
The oil hissed and sizzled.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
A humorous verse of five lines.
What is a limerick?
200
Rhyming of words within one line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
200
There was a Young Lady whose eyes, Were unique as to color and size; When she opened them wide, People all turned aside, And started away in surprise.
What is a limerick?
300
Words that sound like the noises they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
She always had to turn a light Beside her attic bed at night.
What is end rhyme?
300
The name for poetry that tells a story. Songs are sometimes this type of poetry.
What is a ballad?
300
The repeated regular pattern of rhymes found at the end of the lines.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
Knights Armour ,shields Fighting, charging, slaughtering Worried, delighted, brave, fearsome Crusaders
What is a cinquian?
400
Give the term for the figurative language used in this verse: It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
What is a metaphor?
400
I wish I had no teachers. That's what I'd like to see. I'd do whatever I wanted to, And nobody'd yell at me.
What is a quatrain?
400
The name for long story poems which describe the adventures of a hero.
What is an epic?
400
An object that stands for an abstract idea is referred to as a ______________________.
What is a symbol?
400
Can a letter break a heart Like the look as lovers part?
What is a couplet?
500
An extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
500
The sailor sings of ropes and things In ships upon the seas.
What is consonance?
500
One type of poetry that Shakespeare wrote which consists of 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
500
Poetry which does not require either a specified meter or rhyme scheme.
What is free verse?
500
My head aches, and a gnawing hunger stings My gut, as though I hadn't eaten lunch, But been compelled to witness feasting kings Who gorged themselves on turkey legs and punch: 'Tis not because of nature-given bliss, But only due to joy to wander free-- That thou, a turkey, tender, fat and young, Do widen my abyss, Make emptier my stomach cavity, Mocking me with disdain in gobble-tongue.
What is an ode?