Poetry Quiz-3rd Grade

The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words.

Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.

• tone

• stanza

• alliteration

• metaphor

Creates a picture or image in the reader's mind by getting the reader to use one or more of his/her five senses.

• imagery

• theme

• simile

• metaphor

A comparison of TWO different things that DOES NOT include the words "like" or "as".

Example: That boy is a beast on his skateboard!

• alliteration

• rhyme

• metaphor

• simile

The __________________ of the poem is the MESSAGE about LIFE that the poem conveys.

• theme

• imagery

• personification

• stanza

The attitude or mood of a poem is called the poem's ______________.

• repetition

• imagery

• tone

• alliteration

Giving things that are NOT HUMAN, the personalities or actions of humans is called _______________________________.

• stanza

• personification

• rhythm

• rhyme scheme

To repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem is called ______________________________.

• metaphor

• stanza

• theme

• repetition

A poem _______________________ when it has words that END in the SAME SOUND.

• rhymes

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

A way of describing the pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Each new sound at the end of a line is given a letter, starting with "A," then "B," and so on. If an end sound repeats the end sound of an earlier line, it gets the SAME LETTER as the earlier line.

• rhyme scheme

• tone

• imagery

• alliteration

The musical quality of a poem with stressed and unstressed sounds.

• personification

• simile

• imagery

• rhythm