Poetry for Days
A four line stanza.
What is a Quatrain?
An object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
What is Personification?
A poem in the shape of the topic of the poem.
What is a picture poem?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is Alliteration
He wrote the Declaration of Indpenedence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is a meter?
Using an exaggeration to add more dramatic meaning to a sentence.
What is Hyperbole?
A poem of fourteen lines using a patterned rhyme scheme.
What is a Sonnet?
Repetition of vowel sounds.
What is Assonance?
She wrote many letters to her husband, John Adams.
Who is Abigail Adams?
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
What is Enjambment?
When an object represents an idea.
What is Symbolism?
A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject or topic.
What is an Ode?
A word that imitates the sound it represents.
What is Onomatopoeia?
He wrote the Leaves of Grass.
Who is Walt Whitman?
A poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
What is Figurative Language?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a pattern of meter.
A harsh mixture of words.
What is Cacophony?
He wrote Where the Sidewalk Ends.
Who is Shel Silverstein?
A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.
What is Caesura?
A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
What is Paradox?
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally about nature.
What is a Haiku?
Pleasant, harmonious sounds in a poem?
What is Euphony?
She wrote Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Who is Emily Dickinson?