Poetry Terms

Repeated vowel sounds in a line of poetry is called ....

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Assonance

A poem's paragraph is called a ....

• stanza

• line

• section

• paragraph

Which word below is not an onomatopoeia?

• bang

• cow

• moo

• rap

"Love is a rose" is an example of ....

• a simile

• hyperbole

• a metaphor

• personification

"The dew softly kissed the grass" is an example of ....

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Letters of the alphabet are used to mark a poem's ....

• meter

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

• lines

Alliteration refers to the repetition of .... consonant sounds.

• beginning

• middle

• ending

The repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or end of words is called ....

• assonance

• repetition

• consonance

• imagery

If one uses hyperbole, he or she tends to ....

• overexaggerate

• underexaggerate

The individual parts of a poem are its ....

• stanzas

• lines

• rhymes

• words