Poetry Terms - Y8

What name do we give to the way a poem is read / the feelings in a poem?

• Voice

• Feelings

• Tone

• Dialogue

What are we commenting on when we evaluate how the poem is organised?

• Style

• Substance

• Suspense

• Structure

What do we call the repetition of a vowel sound?

• Siblance

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

A metaphor is ...?

• Saying something is something it is not

• Saying soemthing is like something it is not

• Saying something sounds like something else

• Saying something rhymes with something else

'The car danced across the icy road' is an example of what?

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

What is enjambment​?

• The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human

• The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line or stanza

• A pause near the middle of a line

• A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind

What technque involves the beginning of lines of poetry starting the same?

• Anaphora

• Cataphora

• Metaphor

• Simile

A word, line or phrase that is repeated within the lines or stanzas of the poem itself is known as...?

• Chorus

• Stanza

• Refrain

• Sibilance

What do you call a paragraph in poetry?

What is a caesura?

• A pause near the middle of a line.

• A pause at the end of a line.

• No pauses in the whole poem.

• Pauses after every word.