Musical Devices Figurative Language Musical Meter Rhyme Pattern Name that Type
100
What is onomatopoeia
We still don't know what the fox says...but the fish goes "blub"
100
What is simile.
Like or as characterizes this type of word comparison.
100
What is scansion.
The pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables in poetry.
100
What is a heroic couplet
The last two lines of a Shakespearean Sonnet -- the good guy does sometimes finish last.
100
What is free verse.
Pattern? Meter? It just doesn't matter here.
200
What is alliteration
These certainly sound similar; Silly Sally might get her tongue twisted
200
What is personification
The eyes of the night twinkled in the heavens above.
200
What is iambic
A two syllable pattern consisting an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
200
What is a quatrain
Four line grouping bound by its rhyme pattern
200
What is a Haiku.
17 syllables written in 3 lines. Lines 1 and 3 are the same and equal 10.
300
What is consonance.
Blank and think, strong and string--these are a few of my favorite things.
300
What is irony.
"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" This is frequently sarcastic
300
What is a Dactylic Trimeter
A three syllable pattern consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables and written in 3 feet
300
What is a triplet
3 line rhyme
like a stitch in time
no poetic crime
300
What is Terza Rima
Interlocking rhyme pattern and written in tercets.
400
What is eye rhyme
Has the look of a rhyme--but they just don't sound the same.
400
What is extended metaphor.
"The evening was a man, quiet and calm--he was the night, still and silent
400
What is Anapestic pentameter
Three syllable pattern -- two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable -- in five feet
400
What is a Petrarchan or Italian Sonnet
An ABBA ABBA octet followed by a sestet and written in iambic pentameter.
400
What is a parody.
Meant for amusement and imitates real life.
500
What is masculine rhyme
When the stressed syllables sound the same.
500
What is metonomy
A comparison of two things when the lesser actually represents something greater
500
What is Trochaic octameter.
Eight foot two-syllable pattern -- an unstressed syllable following a stressed syllable
500
What is a sexain.
Six rhymed lines but not the Italian Sonnet
500
What is an Ode.
Complex and lengthy--written in dignified and formal style. Reserve this for serious topics.






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