Figurative Language & Poetry

The way a poem looks is called

• form

• stanzas

• lines

• free verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What involves words or phrases that appeal to the five senses?

• rhythm

• rhyme

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What do you call the message the poet wants to give to the reader?

• form

• theme

• details

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

What is it called when a poet exaggerates the truth?

• alliteration

• imagery

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

When words END with the dame sound it is called:

• rhythm

• alliteration

• assonance

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

In poetry, __________________ are like paragraphs.

• stanzas

• lines

• poems

• forms

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

Poems are meant to be read

• silently

• aloud

• repeatedly

• in lines

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

When a poem comperes two things without using like or as, it is called a

• simile

• personification

• free verse

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

Repeating the same consonant at the beginning of words is

• repetition

• alliteration

• personification

• rhythm

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

"The moon smiled down on the ocean below, bestowing it with diamonds" is:

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• free verse

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.5