Poetry Quiz

Using something concrete to stand for something abstract

• consonance

• symbolism

• personification

• hyperbole

A variation of a language depending on where one lives: word choice and pronunciation

• dialect

• verse

• prose

• refrain

How a poem or piece makes the reader feel

• tone

• theme

• motif

• mood

A word, line, or stanza in the poem that repeats

• stanza

• rhyme

• refrain

• rhythm

The central meaning or lesson of the piece

• theme

• mood

• symbolism

• verse

Rows of words that do not always follow rules of capitalization and punctuation

• stanzas

• refrain

• dialect

• lines

Another word for poetry

• assonance

• verse

• prose

• dialect

A comparison between two things not using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• assonance

• personification

Groups of lines set apart by spaces, look like paragraphs

• line

• verse

• onomatopoeia

• stanza

A word that sounds like what it means: buzz, gurgle, pow

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

• hyperbole

• theme