Poetry Notes

Groups of lines in a poem

• stanzas

• free verse

• lines

• rhyme scheme

A comparison of two things using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• onomatopoeia

Two things are compared without using like or as

• hyperbole

• idiom

• alliteration

• metaphor

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.
• Words that sound alike.
• An exaggeration.
• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Idiom

Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Hyperbole

How  is  poetry  written?  (structure)

• a)  Sentences & paragraphs
• b)  Sentences 
• c)  Lines & paragraphs
• d)  Lines & stanzas

When two or more words have the same ending sound, it is called

• scheme

• rhyme

• alliteration

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.10

Descriptive writing that appeals to any of our five senses

• repetition

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.W.5.3D