poetry terms

True or False: Poetry is the same thing as prose.

• True

• False

Poetry is written in...

• paragraphs

• lines and stanzas

• stanzas and paragraphs

• fragments

What is a stanza?

• A line of poetry

• the narrator

• a form of literary expression that captures intense experiences

• A group of lines separated by a space from another group of lines.

Poetry is a form of writing that is meant to:

• entertain, describe, inform, persuade

• dance across the page

• entertain, describe, bore, persuade

• describe, persuade, entertain, exasperate

If prose is like talking, poetry is:

• also like talking

• organizing thoughts

• singing

True or False: Poetry is a form of literary expression that captures intense experiences or creative perceptions of the world in a musical language.

• True

• False

True or False: Poetry has a narrator.

• True

• False

What is a simile?

• a figure of speech using a word such as like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.

• attributes human like characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.

• the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

What is a hyperbole?

• compares seemingly unlike things

• descriptive language that applies to the senses

• a figure of speech in which great exaggeration is used for emphasis or humorous effect.

• the repetition of the same stressed vowel

True or False: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

• True

• False