Types of Poetry
Elements of Poetry
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Vocabulary
Grammar
100

A nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.

What is a villanelle?

100

This is where words have the same ending sound.

What is Rhyme?

100

A comparison of 2 unlikely items using like or as.

What is a simile?

100

Simile, hyperbole, or metaphor.

EX. It's raining cats and dogs!

What is figurative language?

100

A noun that the sentence is based on or is the main part.

What is a subject?

200

This poem tells the story of an event in a persons life in the form of a poem.

What is a Narrative?

200

Division of lines into groups.

Or a paragraph in a poem.

What is a stanza?

200

A direct comparison between 2 unlike things without using the words like or as.

What is a metaphor?

200

Readers feeling toward the poem.

What is mood?

200

It describes a noun.

What is a adjective?

300

A formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person and often set to music.

What is a Lyric poetry?

300

This is the continuation of a sentence in a poem over two or more lines.  

What is enjambment?

300

Language using one or more of the 5 senses to describe something.

What is imagery?

300

Words formed by mimicking the sound they make.

What is onomotopeoia?

300

An action word.

EX. The cat climbed the tree.

What is a verb?

400

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

What is an Elegy?

400

Occurs when the author uses the same letter or sound to begin each word in a string of words.

What is alliteration?

400

Exaggerated comment or line used for effect and not meant to be taken literally.

What is hyperbole?

400

It is the repetition of vowel sounds--not necessarily at the beginning of words as with alliteration.  

What is assonance?

400

Expressing a thing that will happen, already happened, or happening now.

EX. Past, present, or future.

What is a tense?

500

A literary device that can be defined as poetry that has no limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms.



What is a Free Verse?

500

Occurs when the author gives the animal or object ideas or actions.

Hint: Human Qualities

What is personification?

500

Author repeats a word line or phrase to give emphasis.

What is repetition?

500

It is the repetition of consonant sounds--not necessarily at the beginning of words as with alliteration.  

What is a consonance?

500

Has on independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. 

What is a complex sentence?