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Words where the sound suggests the meaning
What is onomatopoeia?
100
the basic unit of a poem
What is a line?
100
a seventeen syllable poem written in three lines
What is a haiku?
100
language that appeals to the senses of sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell
What is imagery?
100
choice of selection of words
What is diction?
200
the use of exaggeration as a device or figure of speech
What is hyperbole?
200
a grouping of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in a short story
What is a stanza?
200
sometimes also called 'shape poetry'—is poetry whose visual appearance matches the topic of the poem
What is a concrete poem?
200
the feeling that a piece of writing produces in the reader
What is the mood?
200
what the poem is actually saying; the meaning in its most basic sense
What is literal meaning?
300
when two unlike things are compared without the use of like or as
What is a metaphor?
300
the repeating of a word, line, or stanza in poetry
What is repetition?
300
a poem that has a regular rhythm but does not rhyme
What is blank verse?
300
the use of words to create a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning
What is irony?
300
to give human qualities to an animal, object or concept
What is personification?
400
when words use like or as to make a comparison between two unlike things
What is a simile?
400
matching sounds that occur within a single line
What is internal rhyme?
400
a form of poetry which tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters
What is a narrative poem?
400
the underlying meaning of the poem
What is theme?
400
forming word patterns by repeating consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
500
The meaning of writing when it is meant to be understood at a deeper level
What is figurative meaning?
500
a pair of rhyming lines
What is a couplet?
500
a 14 line poem that usually follows a set rhyme scheme and metrical pattern
What is a sonnet?
500
finding similarities and differences whether in a piece of writing or between different pieces of writing
What is compare and contrast?
500
poems which take existing texts and refashions them, reorders them, and presents them as poems
What is found poetry?