Poetry Recap

Figures of Speech refer to ...

• Sound devices

• Comparisons

• Form

• Rhyme Schemes

The speaker of a poem is ...

• The person who reads the poem

• The person who writes the poem

• The person who is narrating in the poem

A stanza is ...

• The lines of a poem.

• The paragraphs in a poem.

• Another word for 'poem'.

• The main idea of the poem.

A sound device can be ...

• A Simile

• Personification

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

A comparison can be ...

• A simile

• Assonance.

• Onomatopoeia.

• Personification.

Alliteration is when ...

• the same sound is used repeatedly at the beginning of a word in a phrase or sentence.

• the vowel sounds are repeated in nearby words in a phrase or sentence.

• a word imitates natural sound.

Assonance is when ...

• the same sound is used repeatedly at the beginning of a word in a phrase or sentence.

• a word imitates a natural sound.

• the vowel sounds are repeated in nearby words in a phrase or sentence.

Onomatopoeia is when ...

• the vowel sounds are repeated in nearby words in a phrase or sentence.

• a word imitates a natural sound.

• the same sound is used repeatedly at the beginning of a word in a phrase or sentence.

A simile is when ...

• two unlike things are compared using the word 'like' or 'as'

• two unlike things are compared without using 'like' or 'as'

• an animal or things is given human attributes.

A metaphor is when ...

• two unlike things are compared using the word 'like' or 'as'.

• two unlike things are compared without using the word 'like' or 'as'.

• an animal or thing is given human attributes.