Poetry Unit Review

#1

100

A comparison of two dissimilar things using like or as

Simile

300

Using the same words more than once for emphasis

Repetition

400

Using adjectives to paint a picture to your reader

Imagery

500

Using devices to convey a deeper meaning. 

Figurative Language/Figures of speech

#2

100

A comparison of two dissimilar things

Metaphor

300

The use of language to convey other than what is stated of a contradiction in what is EXPECTED to happen and what ACTUALLY happens.

Irony

500

Using Words such as "SPLASH" "BOOM" "CRASH"

Onomatopoeia 

#3

200

A poem where the last words in the lines sound alike 

Rhyming poem 

300

A 5 line poem 

Limerick 

400

A 3 line non-rhyming poem 

Haiku 

500

Exaggerated figure of speech

Hyperbole

#4

200

Puting things next to each other to be compared 

Juxtaposition 

300

A poem that does not rhyme 

Free verse 

400

Gives human characteristics to something that is not human.

Personification

500

The use of words that sound like what they mean.

Onomatopoeia

#5

100

A poem with 14 lines

Sonnet 

200

A poem that is shaped like a diamond

Diamante 

300

Repeating lines, words or phrases

Repetition 

400

The repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds. 

Alliteration

500

What literary device is illustrated in this poem title: "The Soul's Dark Cottage?"

Metaphor