Poetry Grade 6 VA SOL

A type of figurative language that uses the words like or as to compare unlike things.

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

A sound device that means to repeat lines or phrases in a poem

• alliteration

• rhyme

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

Identify the form of poetry in this example.

Over the wintry

Forest, winds howl in rage

With no leaves to blow.

• Limerick

• Haiku

• Ballad

• Free Verse

A type of figurative language that directly compares two unlike things

• personification

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

A word that imitates the natural sounds of an object or action

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• alliteration

• rhythm

Identify this form of poetry.

There once was a very sad daddy,

Whose golf game was going quite badly.

He looked left and right --

No ball was in sight

I think that he needed a caddy!

• Ballad

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Free Verse

A type of figurative language that give human traits to a nonhuman subject

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Simile

Identify this form of poetry.

so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Ballad

• Free Verse

A sound device that uses the repetition of the beginning sounds of words nearby each other in a poem

• alliteration

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• rhythm

A type of figurative language that exaggerates to create an effect

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor