Poetry Terms

What is rhyme?

• repetition of sounds at the end of words

• the ordered pattern of rhymes

• exaggeration

• a group of lines in a poem

What is meter?

• The beat of a poem

• A comparison

• The rhythm of a poem

• A poem of praise

What is a stanza?

• A group of lines in a poem

• Another name for a paragraph

• A comparison

• A type of rhyme

What is alliteration?

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Repetition of vowel sounds

• Repetition of words

• Repetition of rhymes

What is a simile?

• A comparison that uses like or as

• A comparison that doesn't use like or as

• A comparison that uses human feelings

• A comparison of rhymes

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using like or as

• A comparison without using like or as

• A comparison of numbers

• A comparison of rhymes

What is a personification?

• A figure of speech in which an object is given human traits

• Has to do with people

• A poem about a person

• A way to write a free verse poem

What is assonance?

• A repetition of initial consonant sounds

• A repetition of vowel sounds

• A repetition of rhymes

• A repetition of stanzas

What is a couplet?

• Two people dating

• Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

• Two straight comparisons

• A type of poem

What is a ballad?

• A poem narrating a story in short stanzas

• A poem that praises

• A poem that has no rhymes in it

• A poem that expresses one's feelings