Poetry Types & Terms

A figure of speech that references a historical or literary event.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomotopoeia

A poem with seventeen syllables in three lines

• Tone

• Sonnet

• Haiku

• Hyperbole

A poem of fourteen lines

• Tone

• Sonnet

• Haiku

• Hyperbole

A poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem

• Sonnet

• Rhyme Scheme

• Diction

• Enjambment

A poetic form which has no identifiable patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and meter

• Free verse

• Rhyme scheme

• Sonnet

• Haiku

An exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis

• Metaphor

• Monologue

• Foil

• Hyperbole

At the end of "Miniver Cheevy," we learn that he is ____________.

• Alive

• Dead

• Singing

• Drunk

"Oh Captain! My Captain!" Is about the death of ______________________.

• Walt Whitman

• Abraham Lincoln

• Miniver Cheevy

• William Shakespeare

According to the poem "O Me! O Life!" the good thing is that life "__________" and you can "contribute a verse.

• sings

• rhymes

• ended

• exists

Emily Dickinson compares hope to a _______________.

• Cat

• Bird

• Frog

• Poet