Literary Terms Test

Front

Compares two unlike things USING the words like or as

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Simile

Front

The repetition of sounds at the END of words; pool, rule and fool

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Rhyme

Front

The use of words to imitate sounds

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Onomatopoeia

Front

An extreme exaggeration

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Hyperbole

Front

A poem that tells a story (two words)

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Narrative Poem

Front

Writing or speech that is not to be taken literally (two words)

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Figurative Language

Front

A poem shaped to look like its subject (two words)

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Concrete Poem

Front

A group of lines that work together to express a central idea.

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Stanza

Front

Repetition of similar consonant sounds at the BEGINNING of words.

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Alliteration

Front

Like the narrator of a story, this is the voice of the poem.

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Speaker