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Sound Device
Figurative Language
Form Poetry
Poetic Terms
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When the last syllables of words contain identical sounds when spoken aloud.
What is rhyme?
100
"A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind." William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors This quote from Shakespeare contains an example of this type of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
100
A poem thats purpose is to express emotion.
What is a lyric poem?
100
A pair of rhyming lines
What is a couplet?
200
Crash, boom, and bang are examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
"Stars and Stripes march to their grave, A line of heroes with guns steady." This excerpt from "Daddy" by John Anderson contains an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
200
A poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
200
A type of poem with a regular meter (rhythm) but not rhyme.
What is blank verse?
200
Any piece of writing that is not poetry is written in this.
What is prose?
300
This is labeled by using letters from the alphabet starting with "A". Each word at the end of a line of poetry is assigned a letter based on its ending sound.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
The energizer bunny is an example of this.
What is anthropomorphism?
300
This poem contains 14 lines. Each line is ten syllables and the last two lines rhyme.
What is a sonnet?
300
The careful choice of words by an author to accomplish the purpose of a written piece.
What is diction?
300
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in language.
What is meter?
400
This excerpt from the poem, "Dancing Dolphins" shows an excellent example of this sound device. Those tidal thoroughbreds that tango through the turquoise tide. Their taut tails thrashing they twist in tribute to the titans. They twirl through the trek tumbling towards the tide .
What is alliteration?
400
Forrest Gump's famous line, "Life is like a box of chocolates," is an example of this.
What is simile
400
A type of narrative poem that is written in common language, has repetition, a set rhyme scheme, is often written in the third person limited point of view, and sometimes uses the rhyme scheme "ABAB" or ABCB".
What is a ballad?
400
In this type of poem, an imaginary speaker addresses an audience similar to a monologue.
What is dramatic poetry?
400
A poem that pays tribute or honors a person or other entity.
What is an ode?
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In addition to alliteration, these two sound devices have to do with the repetition of similar sounds in nearby words.
What is assonance and consonance?
500
Early is to late as tall is to short is an example of this.
What is an analogy?
500
A poem that does not follow a regular rhyme scheme or meter.
What is free verse?
500
An 8 line stanza
What is an octave?
500
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long-since-cancell'd woe, And moan th' expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore �bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end This poem is an example of this type of poetry.
What is a sonnet?