A flag stands for country. A dove stands for peace. A 4-leaf clover stands for good luck. These are examples of a poetic device.
What are symbols?
100
Another word for diction. The words the poet chooses to use so the poem can sound better and flow easier.
What is word choice?
100
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative?
100
SPINSTER, SISTERS, SILLY SWINES
Seeking - see spinning sisters/
Swirl slinky sashes soused/
Sliding silk sugar sweets/
Slipping shots shoot shouts
What poetic device is being used in this poem?
What is alliteration?
100
The two types of repetition.
What is assonance and alliteration?
200
It appeals to our five senses and forms a picture in our head.
What is imagery?
200
The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is rhythm?
200
A song or songlike poem that tells a story.
What is a ballad?
200
* “the sun played hide and seek with the clouds”
* “opportunity knocked on the door”
* “the vines wove their fingers together to form a braid”
are all examples of what poetic device?
What is personification?
200
The repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together.
What is alliteration?
300
"He is as big as an elephant" is an example of this figure of speech.
What is a simile?
300
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is meter?
300
A poem of mourning, usually for someone who has died.
What is an elegy?
300
--Role Reversal--
She watches me through slitted eyes/
Though not yet filled with hate/
But venom that--she cannot know--/
I've given out of late./
It's happening all over, and/
This time it really clicks/
And now I know the other pole/
Of feeling--on the stick/
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
What is the abcbdefd?
300
Repeated vowel sounds, as in "weightless" and "space"
What is assonance?
400
"Life is a maze" is an example of what figure of speech?
What is a metaphor?
400
Rhymes that occur within lines.
What is internal rhyme?
400
Long narrative poems, originally passed down from a word of mouth. It tells about heroes who embody the values of the culture recounting the tale.
What are epics?
400
This time of desire seems but a dream/
from here to there to in between./
Where's it start, where's it end.../
to transcend thought to create within?/
We desire our time to slow its pace/
to embrace a trace of grace displaced/
or we speed it up just in case to replace/
discomfort within our space./
Awareness of thought is ours to own/
of space and time and thoughts unknown.../
for the comfort we touch walks all alone/
with the higher self and path well known./
This is an example of what type of rhyme?
What is internal rhyme?
400
Boom...Bang...Meow...Riiiiinnnggg....are all examples of...
What is onomatopoeia?
500
A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or inanimate thing is described as if it had human or lifelike qualities is called...
What is personification?
500
Two rhyming lines that are consecutive
What is a couplet?
500
William Shakespeare is famous for these types of poems. A fourteen-line poem that usually has a particular type of meter.
What is sonnet?
500
What is the sign for stressed syllables and unstressed syllables?
What is / and U?
500
Approximate rhymes can also be called (give 3 out of 4 answers)
What is near rhymes, off rhymes, imperfect rhymes, or slant rhymes?