Figurative Language
A comparison using the words like or as.
What is Simile
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
What is Alliteration
A 14-line poem that has traditionally followed specific rules of thyme and meter.
What is Sonnet
She is a night owl.
What is Metaphor
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
Splash! Silence again.
What is Haiku
The use of images, often figurative ones, that appeal to one of the 5 senses. Images can be olfactory (smell), auditory (sound), tactile (touch), visual (sight), or gustatory (taste).
What is Imagery
A reference to a person, place, thing, event or idea in history or literature used to suggest an emotion or idea.
What is Allusion
A short poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a first-person narrator and is characterized by its musical qualities.
Walking dead
What is Oxymoron
Define an Ode
What is a short lyric poem that praises an individual, an idea, or an event.
Used to express an abstract idea using an item or words.
What is Symbolism
The repetition, at close intervals, of vowel sounds.
What is Assonance
Poetry that is not in a fixed form. Also called open form.
What is Free Verse
I am drowning in my sorrows.
What is Hyperbole
How is battle rap and slam poetry similar?
What is competition
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is Hyperbole
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
What is Paradox
2-line stanza, which may or may not rhyme.
What is Couplet
I can hear the moo of the cows through the open window.
What is Onomatopoeia
What is the theme of the poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into the Night?"
What is death, family, transition
A phrase whose words contradicts each other with opposite meanings.
What is Oxymoron
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
What is Allegory
A fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form.
What is Ballad
"It runs and it creeps/ For awhile, till it sleeps”
What is End Rhyme
What is Amanda Gorman, the poet most famous for?
What is her inaugural poem