Musical Devices | Figurative Language | Musical Meter | Rhyme Pattern | Name that Type |
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What is onomatopoeia
We still don't know what the fox says...but the fish goes "blub"
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What is simile.
Like or as characterizes this type of word comparison.
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What is scansion.
The pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in poetry.
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What is a heroic couplet
The last two lines of a Shakespearean Sonnet -- the good guy does sometimes finish last.
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What is free verse.
Pattern? Meter? It just doesn't matter here.
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What is alliteration
These certainly sound similar; Silly Sally might get her tongue twisted
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What is personification
The eyes of the night twinkled in the heavens above.
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What is iambic
A two syllable pattern consisting an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
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What is a quatrain
Four line grouping bound by its rhyme pattern
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What is a Haiku.
17 syllables written in 3 lines. Lines 1 and 3 are the same and equal 10.
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What is consonance.
Blank and think, strong and string--these are a few of my favorite things.
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What is irony.
"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" This is frequently sarcastic
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What is a Dactylic Trimeter
A three syllable pattern consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables and written in 3 feet
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What is a triplet
3 line rhyme
like a stitch in time no poetic crime |
What is Terza Rima
Interlocking rhyme pattern and written in tercets.
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What is eye rhyme
Has the look of a rhyme--but they just don't sound the same.
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What is extended metaphor.
"The evening was a man, quiet and calm--he was the night, still and silent
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What is Anapestic pentameter
Three syllable pattern -- two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable -- in five feet
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What is a Petrarchan or Italian Sonnet
An ABBA ABBA octet followed by a sestet and written in iambic pentameter.
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What is a parody.
Meant for amusement and imitates real life.
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What is masculine rhyme
When the stressed syllables sound the same.
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What is metonomy
A comparison of two things when the lesser actually represents something greater
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What is Trochaic octameter.
Eight foot two-syllable pattern -- an unstressed syllable following a stressed syllable
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What is a sexain.
Six rhymed lines but not the Italian Sonnet
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What is an Ode.
Complex and lengthy--written in dignified and formal style. Reserve this for serious topics.
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