Poetry/Figurative Language Terms Quiz

giving an animal or inanimate object human qualities or emotions

• personification
• meter
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor

comparing two things using "like" or "as"

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• stanza

comparing two things without using "like" or "as"

• metaphor
• simile
• alliteration
• stanza

the pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a poem

• rhyme scheme

• meter

• stanza

• simile

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• meter

The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem.

• meter

• rhythm

• hyperbole

• personification

The repetition of consonant sounds ANYWHERE in a group of words.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• meter

• alliteration

A word that sound like what it means.

• onomatopoeia

• stanza

• simile

• rhyme scheme

A group of lines in a poem.

• stanza

• meter

• rhythm

• free verse

poetry free of any restrictions; poetry not tied to a particular pattern

• free verse
• hyperbole
• figurative language
• stanza