Poetry Vocabulary Quiz

Front

Repetition of sounds at the ends of words (e.g., pool, rule, fool)

Back

Rhyme

Front

Use of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence more than once.

Back

Repetition

Front

Words that imitate sounds: crash, bang, hiss, splat

Back

Onomatopoeia

Front

Beat from stressed and unstressed syllables

Back

Rhythm

Front

Repetition of consonant sounds at the start of words: lovely lonely lights

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Alliteration

Front

Comparison using 'like' or 'as' between unlike things.

Back

Simile

Front

Gives human traits to nonhuman things.

Back

Personification

Front

Comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

Back

Metaphor

Front

Describes something using the five senses for a vivid picture.

Back

Sensory language.

Front

Poetry that conveys a single speaker's thoughts and feelings in musical verse.

Back

Lyric