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Poetic Devices
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A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative Poem
100
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration
100
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore
What is alliteration?
100
a poem with 4 lines.
What is quatrain?
100
Which figurative language technique is used in the following sentence: The sun peeked over the mountains.
What is personification?
200
Characterized by compression, and the expression of feelings, often used in music
What is lyric poetry?
200
the comparison of objects or situations without using "like" or "as"
What is metaphor
200
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing/ And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September," I heard a bird sing/ In the dark of December.
What is ABAB ABAB?
200
a poem that mourns the dead
What is elegy?
200
words that carry the opposite meaning
What is irony?
300
A poem with no rhythm, and no rhyme
What is free verse poetry
300
division or section of a poem
What is a Stanze.
300
repeating of entire lines or phrases to emphasize key thematic ideas
What is repetition?
300
Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble?
300
Millie May mixes muffins on Monday. This is an example of: a. onomatopoeia b. alliteration c. homophones
What is Alliteration
400
the first letters of each line are aligned vertically to form a word. The word is often the subject of the poem.
What is Acrostic Poetry
400
the comparison of dissimilar objects or situations using "like" or "as"
What is Simile
400
What tool is used to create emphasis in this poem? Hint: It is NOT rhyme. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.
What is repetition?
400
A group of lines of poetry (like a paragraph)
What is stanza?
400
What does this idiom mean? He is a chip off the old block.
What is he is just like his father or his brother.
500
Japanese poetry about nature, unrhymed, and has three lines
What is Haiku poetry
500
A word that mimics the sound it represents
What is onomatopoeia
500
What is the rhyme scheme? Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
What is ABAAB?
500
Which figurative language technique is used in the following sentence: The door closed with a bang!
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
The equator is so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk. Antarctica is so cold that your tears would turn to icicles. These are examples of what poetic device?
What is Hyperbole