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Sound Devices
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Poetry in Action
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Types of Poetry
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The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line is known as this sound device
What is Rhythm?
100
This type of figurative language occurs when the poet gives things that are not human human-like qualities
What is personification?
100
"Wherever it grows, there is green and gold and fair" is an example of these TWO poetic devices:
What is imagery and alliteration
100
This category of poem has consistency between stanzas
What is a traditional poem?
100
This type of poetry is about a serios topic, such as nature, and usually has the type name right in the title
What is an ode?
200
This is what occurs when a poet tries to make two words that do not totally rhyme (but have at least one comoon sound) fit into a rhyme scheme
What is a soft rhyme?
200
This literary device appeals to the readers sense of smell, taste, touch, sight, and/or hearing
What is imagery?
200
"Heat hung like damp stockings over the taut wire of the neighborhood..." is an example of this type of figurative language
What is simile?
200
The words in peoms are broken up into multiple ______, which are sort of like the "sentences" of poems
What are lines?
200
This type of petry tells a story
What is narrative poetry?
300
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is known as this sound device
What is Alliteration?
300
This is a type of comparison that a poet can make when they say that something is something else
What is a metaphor?
300
so we wad all our life up into one little roll and then we shoot the roll that is what life is for This represents this type of figurative language:
What is a conceit?
300
This category of poetry has no set rhythm or rhyme; no rules
What is free verse (unconventional) poetry?
300
"Boots of Spanish Leather" is an example of this type of narrative poem
What is a ballad?
400
The use of a word, phrase, line, or sound more than once is known as this sound device
What is Repetition?
400
This is a type of comparison where two things are compared using the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
400
"I'd rather be a tall ugly weed"
What is a metaphor?
400
This part of a poem that helps make up form consists of lines that are grouped together
What is a stanza?
400
This is a short poem in which a speaker expresses personal thoughts and/or feelings
What is a lyric poem?
500
This sound device is the repetition of vowel sounds within words that appear near each other.
What is Assonance?
500
A metaphor that extends pver several lines, stanzas, or throughout an entire poem is known as this
What is a conceit?
500
"Some one the sum could tell" is an example of these TWO sound devices:
What is alliteration and assonance?
500
Poetry is not like this type of literature, which refers to the type of writing that books, magazines, and "normal" writing are written in
What is prose?
500
This type of poem is strict in form and contains 14 lines that must fit a very specific rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet?