Elements of Poetry

Front

Which is an example of alliteration?

• There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of purple peppers.
• Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
• Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse ran up the clock.

Back

Peter Piper picked a peck of purple peppers.

Front

What is free verse?

Back

poetry that does not have any rhyme patterns or any stanza patterns

Front

Groups of lines separated by breaks are:

meters

,

patterns

,

stanzas

,

rhythms

Back

stanzas

Front

Pow, meow, arf, buzz, and cheep-cheep are examples of:

Back

onomatopoeia

Front

What is it called when a poet repeats the same word or group of words or sentence in a poem?

Back

repetition

Front

Rhyme

Back

that a word ends in the same sound as another word

Front

Figurative

Back

saying one thing, but meaning something else or something more

Front

The way that the sound of a poem rises and falls like beats in music is:

Back

rhythm

Front

What is it called when a poet repeats the same word or group of words or sentence in a poem?

Back

repetition

Front

When 2 things are compared using like or as

Back

simile