Unit 1 Vocabulary 7th

what is the meaning of meter?

• overall tempo, or pace, at which the poem unfolds.

• beats and pattern.

• premeasured patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.

• measuring unit in math .

The pattern of rhymes in a poem

• mood
• free verse
• imagery
• rhyme scheme

Giving abstractions or inanimate objects human qualities or abilities

• Personification

• Irony

• Oxymoron

• Metonymy

What is an idiom?

• a phrase that means something else than what it says

• comparing two things using like or as

• an extreme exageration

• giving human traits to objects or ideas

What is personification?

• comparing two things using like or as
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• a dramatic exaggeration
• a word that resemebles the sound it represents

What is a hyperbole?

• comparing two things using like or as
• an extreme exaggeration
• giving human traits to objects or ideas
• words that are contradictory when used together

What type of figurative language is shown?
The flower hugged the earth after being blown over by the storm.

• personification
• alliteration
• metaphor
• simile

What type of figurative language is shown?
She was so sad that all the tears she cried filled up a lake.

• hyperbole
• oxymoron
• alliteration
• onomatopoeia

What type of figurative language is shown?
When her first attempt failed, she went back to the drawing board.

• idiom
• onomatopoeia
• oxymoron
• hyperbole

Capital letters, line length, and word position; the "shape" of a poem

• graphic elements of poetry

• meter

• metrics