These patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.gives poetry a rhythmical and melodious sound/
meter
Poems that don't follow strict rules about lines, stanzas, rhythm and rhyme.
free verse
The repetition of internal vowel sounds.
assonance
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
hyperbole
Which spelling is correct?
elliteration
alliteration
aliteration
aliterashun
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
personification
The way a poem is laid out on the page, how it "looks."
form
A stanza of four lines, often but not always having alternate rhymes.
quatrain
What form of poem is this?
haiku
Boom! Thud! Pow! These words are examples of ___________ .
onomatopoeia
Which word is spelled incorrectly?
alliteration
imagery
limeric
onomatopoeia
Comparing two things using like or as,
simile
My shoes are killing me.This sentence is an example of a _______.
hyperbole, idiom, cliche
A literary device that gives emphasis to an important idea of the poem by including it more than once.
repetition
The tree whispered in the wind is an example of__________.
personification
What is a 19-line poem, such as Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle," called
villenelle
What form of poem is this?
limerick
"Tim, the terrifying tiger" is an example of _________
alliteration
He was a tornado, blasting through the opposing team.This is an example of a ____________
metaphor
A literary form of address that may be mistaken for a punctuation mark?
apostrophe
Define onomatopoeia.
The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it.
This is an example of a ______________ poem. "The fog comes/on little cat feet./It sits looking/over harbor and city/on silent haunches/and then moves on."
free verse
What form of poetry did I make famous?
the English, or Shakespearean sonnet
Which of these is an idiom?
...miles to go before I sleep.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Can absence be abundance?
...and what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
A division of several lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme. It divides the poem into what looks like paragraphs.
stanza
What is rhythm?
the musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables: the beat of the poem.
Which is correct?
onomatopoeia
onamatapia
I give up.
onomotopeia
What type of poem is The Odyssey?
epic, or really long narrative poem
It's the part of a song or poem that appears at the end of the stanza, or appears where a poem or song divides into different sections, and is repeated.
refrain or chorus
Two lines that rhyme, typical of the last two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet.
couplet
The cloud was fluffy like cotton candy.This is an example of a _____________
simile
Using figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
imagery
What popular form of poetry has 14 lines with a rhyming couplet at the end?
English or Shakespearan sonnet
A repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines in poems or songs
rhyme
Which is correct?
hyperbole
hiperbole
hyperboly
hiperbowly
A shorter poem that expresses one main feeling or idea is called:
epic
ode
narrative
lyric