When a non-human object is given human characteristics
What is personification
100
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile
100
When the beginning sounds of words repeat
What is alliteration
100
Where the beats fall in a line of poetry
What is rhythm
100
What the author thinks about the subject
What is tone
200
A comparison not using like or as
What is a metaphor
200
When a passage makes you see, hear, feel, taste, or smell something
What is imagery
200
When a word sounds like the sound it is describing
What is onomatopoeia
200
A long poem that is about a hero
What is an epic
200
What the reader feels while reading a piece
What is mood
300
What are these examples of: Saturday Night Live, Anchorman, MadTV, the Chapelle Show, and the Colbert Report
What are parodies
300
What is the following an example of: "What does a clock do when it's hungry? It goes back four seconds"
What is a pun
300
When the ends of lines rhyme
What is end rhyme
300
When a poem rhymes, does not tell a story, and is about one specific event or emotion.
What is lyric poetry
300
What poetic term is most present in this passage: "and in some perfumes is there more delight/ than in the breath that from my mistress reeks"
What is imagery
400
When something appears simple on the surface but actually means something much deeper.
What is allegory
400
When someone exaggerates
What is hyperbole
400
When words within a line of poetry rhyme
What is internal rhyme
400
When a poem rhymes, tells a story, and has a refrain
What is a ballad
400
What poetic device is most present in the following passage: "Oh Stewart, stop being such a Romeo!"
What is allusion
500
Expressions that, if taken word for word, don't make sense but are used in daily conversation. Example: Hanging Around
What is idiom
500
When something at first does not make sense but then, on further inspection, reveals a deep truth
What is paradox
500
When two words do not, in principal, rhyme with each other but do sound alike
What is slant rhyme
500
DAILY DOUBLE: A poem that is 14 lines long and has a set ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme (for full points you must give both the term for the poem and the sub-category for that poem type)
What is a Shakespearean sonnet
500
What poetic device is most present in the following passage: "my mistress' eyes are nothing like the Sun"