Question | Answer |
Tools used to do something | Devices
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Repeated VOWEL sounds in the middle of lines | Assonance
| Repeated CONSONANT sounds | Alliteration
| Matching VOWEL sounds in the last word in a line | End rhyme
| Words that sound like what they describe | Onomatopoeia
| Huge exaggeration | Hyperbole
| An unexpected and almost opposite outcome | Irony
| Rhythm or beat of syllables | Meter
| A physical structure of the poem | Form
| Description that appeals to the 5 senses | Imagery
| Words that make you feel a certain way | Mood
| Metaphors and similes that create an image that is not literally happening | Figurative Language
| A paragraph or chunk in poetry | Stanza
| What we call poetry because it is made up of beats and syllables NOT grammatical units like a sentence | Verse
| Parts of something | Element
| Figurative phrase whose meaning can NOT be understood from the literal definition of each word | Idiom
| "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tune without words | Figurative Language
| I hauled the hundreds of heavy handkerchiefs down the path through to hairy Harry's house | Alliteration
| __________s of language, ___________s of poetry, ___________s on the periodic table | Element
| Pun, connotation, contrast, irony are all examples of ____________ used in poetry to make it more interesting | Devices
| The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain | Assonance
| Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! | End Rhyme
| Susie's galoshes. Make splishes and sploshes. And slooshes and sloshes. | Onomatopoeia
| I'M SO HUNGY I COULD EAT A COW! | Hyperbole
| "I posted a video on YouTube about how boring and useless YouTube is" This is an example of ________ | Irony
| Haiku or Cinquain | Form
| I’m glad the sky is painted blue, And the earth is painted green, With such a lot of nice fresh air, All sandwiched in between. | Imagery
| Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— | Mood
| Duh-dum, Duh-dum, Duh-dum | Meter |