Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms

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Katy Moylan

English

9th Grade

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CCSS
RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.5.5

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is "alliteration" ?
The use of synonyms.
Words that sound alike.
An exaggeration.
The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a "refrain" ?
The last line of a poem
The first line of a poem
A line that is repeated
A line that rhymes

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Hyberbole

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?
Hyperbole
Personification
Alliteration
Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life
Personification
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
Refrain
Rhyme
Meter
Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses?
stanza
onomatopoeia
optical illusion
imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.W.6.3D

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which poetry term refers to a group of lines arranged together in a poem?
a)  Poet
b)  Speaker
c)  Stanza
d)  Lines

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

10.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Poetry that does not have a set rhyming pattern.
a)  Patterned
b)  Free Verse
c)  Rhymed
d)  Humorous

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

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