Terms
Figurative Language
Examples
Rhyme Scheme
Elements of Poetry
100

The literal meaning of a word

What is denotation/definition?

100

The repetition of the sound of a vowel near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

What is assonance?

100

Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.

What is alliteration

100

I'm Miss Misinformation,

it's my gratifying task

to tell you all you need to know,

you only need to ask.

What is ABCB

100

A direct comparison between two things. It does not use the words like or as

What is metaphor?

200

Something that stands for something else

What is symbol?

200

A reference to something with which the reader is likely to be familiar

What is allusion?

200

The blustery autumn drums our door.

What is assonance

200

Their daily lives are bland,

and if they land -

they're canned.

What is AAA

200

The use of words that sound like the noises they describe

What is onomatopoeia?

300

The attitude the writer takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character

What is tone?

300

Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme, meter, or form

What is free verse?

300

It takes one to know one.

What is idiom

300

I'm K. C. O'Fleer,

famous train engineer,

at railroading I am supreme.

I'm on the express

known as Anyone's Guess,

What is AABCC

300

The use of any element of language - a sound, word, phrase, or sentence - more than once

What is repetition?

400

The attitude or feeling of the character or speaker who tells the poem

What is voice/speaker?

400

The obvious stretching of the truth

What is hyperbole?

400

The bees buzzed around the tree.

What is onomatopoeia

400

To come out and call you a knot-head

would not be a nice thing to do.

However, I can't help but notice

that woodpecker landing on you.

What is ABCB

400

The musical quality created by a pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables

What is rhythm?

500

A group of lines in a poem set off by a blank line

What is stanza?

500

A humorous, five-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme and meter

What is limerick?

500

There is a thing beneath the stair

With slimy face and oily hair

What is imagery

500

Hurry Grandma, look at me,

I'm right side up, I'm upside down,

I'm swinging from a tree.

What is ABA

500

A repeated regular pattern of rhymes usually found at the end of lines in a poem

What is rhyme scheme?