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What am I?
100
A poem that tells a story and usually has a plot
What is a narrative poem?
100
A comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
The occurrence in a phrase, line of speech, or writing of two or more words having the same initial sound.
What is alliteration?
100
A piece of literature written in meter and/or verse.
What is poetry?
100
The moon dances around my fear.
What is personification?
200
A 14 line poem which expresses a thought, idea or sentiment.
What is a sonnet?
200
A comparison, when one thing is called something else.
What is a metaphor?
200
Resemblance in sound, especially in the vowel sounds of words.
What is assonance?
200
The correspondence of sound in two or more words. The end of the words have identical sounds.
What is rhyme?
200
He ran as fast as a rocket ship.
What is simile?
300
A poem that expresses a thought, feeling, or an impression that the author feels. Often set to music.
What is a lyric poem?
300
The use of words, such as buzz or cuckoo, that imitate sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
An exaggeration or overstatement used as a figure of speech.
What is a hyperbole?
300
The measured rhythm characteristics of verse.
What is meter?
300
The train chugged up the hill.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
a narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, usually having a repeating chorus
What is a ballad?
400
Giving human-like qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
400
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A literary style used for a humorous effect.
What is irony?
400
The regular recurrence of accent or stress. It has a pattern of beats.
What is rhythm?
400
The frozen boat is cold.
What is assonance?
500
The use of figure of speech or vivid descriptions in writing or speaking to produce mental images.
What is imagery?
500
A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words.
What is portmanteau?
500
Intentional lack of emphasis in expression, as in irony.
What is understatement?
500
One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines.
What is a stanza?
500
I am an angry tiger.
What is a metaphor?