An example of this figure of speech is "red, red rose."
What is "alliteration"?
100
This is an exaggeration used to make a point, like "I've told you a thousand times to clean your room!!!!!"
What is "hyperbole"?
100
This is a comparison that uses "like" or "as"
What is a "simile"?
100
You have this when a poet uses words with the same or similar sounds.
What is "rhyme"?
100
This is the reason Ms. Dunham wants you to know "iambic pentameter."
What is "it's the most used poetical beat pattern in English language poetry."
200
Examples of this one are "Boom!" "Bang" and "Buzz!"
What is "onomatopoeia"?
200
If I say "the sun is smiling," I am using this figure of speech.
What is "personification"?
200
A dove, the flag, and the Nike swoop all have this in common?
What is they are all "symbols"?
200
This term is used in music as well as poetry. It's all about rhythm.
What is "meter"?
200
This is Walt Whitman's nationality.
What is "American."
300
When an author used vivid language to paint a sensory picture for a reader, s/he is using this figure of speech.
What is "imagery"?
300
This is a comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as."
What is a "metaphor"?
300
This is a poetical beat pattern that uses just 2 syllables, one unstressed and one stressed.
What is "iambic pentameter"?
300
This is a map of the pattern of sounds at the ends of lines in a poem.
What is "rhyme scheme"?
300
In Whitman's poem "O, Me! O, Life!" this is what the metaphor "the powerful play goes on" refers to.
What is "life"?
400
In poetry, this is the vantage point of the speaker in the poem -- the voice speaking in the poem.
What is "narrative point of view"?
400
You've cat to be kitten me!! - is an example of a ....
What is a "pun"?
400
This is just one kind of a poem.
What is "a sonnet"?
400
You need to know how to break words down into syllables to do this to a line of poetry.
What is "scan"?
400
The general classifications of literature are prose, drama, and this.
What is "poetry"?
500
This kind of figurative language involves the repetition of vowels.
What is "assonance"?
500
When an author leads the reader to expect one outcome, but something different, something unexpected happens, this is ....
What is "irony"?
500
In "O, Me! O, Life!," Walt Whitman says that in spite of the messiness of our ordinary lives, there is good in life simply because we exist and we can "contribute a verse." This is his message, or ....
What is "theme"?
500
These are the 5 characteristics of a sonnet:
What is
1. 14 lines
2. 2 forms
3. ?/A
4. iambic pentameter
5. subject is love
500
Today, academics consider Walt Whitman to be one of the two most important American poets ever. Who is the other one?