Poetry Terms

What does alliteration mean?

• an extreme exaggeration

• Words that start with the same sound

• Words that start with the same letter

• A direct comparison of two unlike things

What is a hyperbole?

• a thought

• a shoutout

• a lame exaggeration

• an extreme exaggeration

What does imagery mean?

• no details

• a fancy looking image or photo

• descriptive details using the five senses

• a detail

What is a metaphor?

• a direct comparison of two alike things

• a direct comparison of two unlike things

• a direct comparison using your eyes

What is an onomatopeia?

• words that imitate a sound

• words that don't make sense

• words that have a feeling

What does personification mean?

• a cat that talks

• a girl who runs

• giving nonhuman things human characteristics

• a cow that moos

What does rhyme mean?

• when two words have the same ending vowel and consonant sound

• when two words have the same ending vowel and barking sound

• when two words have the other ending vowel and consonant sound

What is a rhyme scheme?

• a pattern of repeating squares

• a pattern of lines

• a pattern on the wall

• a pattern of rhyming lines

What is a stanza?

• a paragraph of literature

• a paragraph of poetry

• a paragraph of fiction

• a paragraph of non-fiction

What is symbolism?

• a contrast of two alike things using a sentence

• a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

• a comparison of two alike things using the words "so" or "but"

• a comparison of two unlike things using the words "and" or "then"