Literary Devices
4 Line Stanza
What is a quatrain?
Comparison using like, as, or as if
What is a simile?
Ballad about a boy and his tv
What is Jimmy Jet and His TV Set?
5-7-5 syllables
What is a haiku?
Her hair was like a river of curls
What is a simile?
Comparison of two dissimilar things
What is a metaphor?
A poem that has a rhetorical question in its title
What is Who Has Seen the Wind?
Uses ABCB or ABAB rhyme scheme
What is a ballad?
"We will inherit the earth"
What is an allusion?
Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things
What is personification?
What is A Bird, Came Down the Walk?
"mile and smile", "trees and breeze"
Spring = rebirth, new beginnings
What is a symbol?
Reference to a work of literature, art, music, or to a historical event or person
What is an allusion?
Math poem about nature
What is Nature Knows Its Math?
A question a reader is not supposed to answer
What is a rhetorical question?
A question not meant to be answered by readers
What is a rhetorical question?
Person, place, thing, event, object, or action that suggests more than its literal meaning
What is a symbol?
Poem about meek plant life taking over the planet
What is Mushrooms?
Controls pacing of poem
What is punctuation?