Question | Answer |
What is an acrostic? | Uses each letter in a word going down to create a poem |
What is an allegory? | extended narrative metaphor (two meanings) objects, persons, ect. are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. |
What is a ballad? | A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale, legend and often repeats the refrain (chorus) |
What is a cinquain? | It has 5 lines; line one word is one word title, line two is two words that describe the title, line three is three words that tell a certain action, line four is four words that express a feeling, and line five is one word that recalls the title |
What is an epic? | A long serous poem that tells a story of a heroic figure. |
What is figurative language? | Describes something comparing it to something else. |
What is a hyperbole? | Exaggeration that is so dramatic no one would believe it. |
What is imagery? | Represents things, actions, or abstract ideas descriptively. |
What is a metaphor? | Figure of language in which two unlike objects are compared by identification. |
What is a meter? | A pattern f stressed and unstressed syllabels or stress patern. |
What is a onomatopoeia? | Words whose sounds seem to express or reinforce their meanings (boom) |
What is personification? | Giving human qualities to inanimative objects. |
What is a proverb? | Popular short saying usually unknown and of ancient origin. |
What is a pun? | A play on words that are identical in sounds, but are sharply diverse in meaning |
What is repetition? | The act of repeating (action, performance, production, ect.) |
What is a rhyme? | Repetition of the same or similair sounds at the end of two or more words. |
What is shape/concrete? | Placement of words on the pages so that a picture is formed containing the image of the poem itself. |
What is a sonnet? | A lyric poem containing of a single stanza of fourteen lines. |