Poetry Vocabulary Quiz

an expression that says one thing but means another (ex. I have butterflies in my stomach)

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

• idiom

an exaggerated statement (ex. Kathelyn takes 1,000,000 years to do her homework)

• hyperbole

• idiom

• repetition

a reference to a person, place, or event (ex. you are like Ariana Grande)

• alliteration

• allusion

• repetition

A word or phrase that sounds like the sound it makes (ex. BOOM!)

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

repeating sounds, words, phrases or lines

• metaphor

• simile

• repetition

the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song

• rhyme scheme

• allusion

• metaphor

comparing two UNLIKE things using the words "LIKE" or "AS" (ex. hungry as a bear)

• allusion

• simile

• idiom

giving HUMAN/PERSON qualities to things that are NOT human (ex. my car is tired)

• simile

• idiom

• personification

comparing two unlike things by saying that one IS the other (ex. the snow IS a white blanket)

• metaphor

• idiom

• hyperbole

when two or more words near each other start with the same sound (ex. Happy hippos hop happily)

• personification

• alliteration

• hyperbole