Poetry Terms

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers is an example of

• assonance

• consonance

• metaphor

• alliteration

Poetry is

• a form of literature that follows strict rules

• a form of literature that uses character-driven plot

• a form of literature that uses emotional language

• a form of literature that has no rules at all

Which is an example of slant rhyme?

• cat and sat

• cat and bam

• cat and rat

• cat and sad

"My strategy has to be tragedy, catastrophe" is an example of

• internal rhyme

• slant rhyme

• rhyme

• rhythm

Which of the following is an example of imagery?

• Pie is my favorite desert

• I prefer sweet potato pie

• This pie makes me very happy

• This pie tastes like Christmas in a tin

A group of lines in a poem

is called

• stanza

• paragraph

• line break

• form

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Allusion

• Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.

• A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

• An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

• The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet’s placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.

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The musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

is called

• rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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The repetition of vowel sounds

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Theme

• Personification

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The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character

• Tone
• Metaphor
• Caesura
• Allusion

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