A line or lines describing an appeal to one of the sense
What is sensory (or sense) imagery?
100
A way of indicating which lines in a poem rhyme by assigning a letter to each end sound.
What is rhyme scheme?
100
A Comparison using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
100
19th century poet best-known for his short stories and a poem about a bird.
What is Edgar Allan Poe?
200
A line of poetry that contains three feet.
What is trimeter?
200
Example:
"...the quick sharp scratch..."
What is touch?
200
Not an exact rhyme; when the poet uses words ending lines which may have the same last vowel sound but not the last vowel and consonant sound (such as "bowl" and "home."
What is slant rhyme (or near rhyme)?
200
Example " The fog comes on little cat feet."
What is personification?
200
20th century New England poet whose poems were mostly about nature and included the lines:
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both"
What is Robert Frost?
300
The repetition of one or more phrases at the end of a stanza.
What is refrain?
300
Example:
"...And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,, than the two hearts beating each to each."
What is sound?
300
A kind of poetry that has a regular meter but doesn't rhyme.
What is blank verse?
300
Example:
"And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;"
What is hyperbole?
300
20th century poetess whose poems included "Phenomenal Woman" and "Still I Rise"
What is Maya Angelou?
400
The basic metrical unit of line length in a poem
What is feet (or foot)?
400
Example:
"Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach..."
What is smell?
400
A kind of poetry that lacks rhyme and regular meter.
What is free verse?
400
The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as: “A man is but a weak reed”; “The road was a ribbon of moonlight.”
What is metaphor?
400
20th century poet whose poems and cartoons appeared in Playboy magazine
What is Shel Silverstein?
500
A pattern consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic?
500
Example:
"No food on earth, no wine, not even a woman's kiss is sweeter to me..."
What is taste?
500
the same initial consonant at the beginning of the words. Examples are blue and blow, sun and sand, merry and monkey.
What is alliteration?
500
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).
What is synecdoche?
500
Scottish poet whose dialect poems include the words to a popular New Year's Eve song:
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,..."