Poetry & Literary Elements Quiz

repeated words or phrase

• free verse

• end rhyme

• repetition

• hyperbole

song or poem written as lament for the dead

• ballad

• elegy

• lyric

• stanza

poetry with an irregular rhyme or line pattern that reflects the author's own style

• epic poem

• free verse

• narrative

• repetition

a comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'

• limerick

• metaphor

• simile

• stanza

traditional poem of Japan with three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables

• haiku

• ballad

• lyric

• simile

at the end of lines, words rhyme

• assonance

• hyperbole

• narrative

• end rhyme

a great exaggeration

• assonance

• end rhyme

• hyperbole

• repetition

words that sound like the name of the word; sound effect

• narrative

• internal rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

narrative poem; often passed along from generation to generation

• epic poem

• stanza

• haiku

• ballad

at the beginning of words, there is a repetition of consonants

• alliteration

• personification

• narrative

• limerick