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Poetic Devices
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A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative Poem
100
Sally Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore is an example of
What is alliteration
100
A view about life that is not directly stated. A lesson the author wants us to take away from the poem.
What is theme?
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 repetition of a vowel sound, in two or more words.
What is assonance
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
The accent of pattern of speech unique to a geographic region.
What is dialect?
200
Her eyes were as blue as the sea.
What is Simile
300
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem
300
Stanze
What is a division or section of a poem
300
What figurative language tool is used in this quote? “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems
What is assonance?
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 repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a word (not just at the beginning) in a line verse
What is consonance
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