Poetry

The use of words whose sound suggest their meaning: hum, click, and boom, are examples of:

• Rhythm
• Paraphrase
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron

Alliteration?

• It's not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.
• Dyslexics of the world untie!
• Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!
• Darn dogs dancing.
  I’m the sleekest sheet slitter
  that ever slit sheets.

A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space. This is like the paragraph of poetry

• stanza
• refrain
• ballad
• chorus

What is personification?

• Giving human like things to non human like things
•  A comparison that uses like or as
• a comparison that do
• Use of a object to stand for a thing or idea

What is this an example of?

• personification
• Sonnet
• epic poem
• Lyric poem

Imagery appeals to the ______________.

• brain
• senses
• crazy people
• memory

A simile:

• compares two unlike things using as or like
• compare two unlike things
• is language that appeals to the senses.

A direct comparison of two unlike things that does not use the words "like" or "as" in the comparison.  It often uses "is" in the comparison.

• metaphor 
• simile 
• onomatopoeia
• adverb

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

THE MEssage about life that the poem or story tells
Ex: friendship, bravery, courage

• alliteration
• tone
• theme
• stanza