All the Poetry Terms

Which of the following best define poetry?

• A composition in verse

• Has highly developed form

• Uses heightened language and rhythm

• All of the above

Onomatopoeia

• The repetition of beginning sounds in adjacent or closely connected words

• A word that mimics a sound

• A comparison using like or as

• The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

Alliteration is...

• a comparison using like or as

• a comparison that DOES NOT use like or as

• when the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other

• the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Figurative Language is...

• When you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal, everyday, literal meaning

• A comparison using like or as

• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of line of a poem or verse

• The units a poem is divided into

Which of these is a metaphor?

• Her hair was as soft as silk.

• The pool was as cold as ice.

• RING RING RING! My alarm clock went off at 6:00.

• The test was a piece of cake.

Which of the following is a simile?

• When I squeezed the bag of chips, it went POP and chips were everywhere.

• The kitten is as soft as a cashmere sweater.

• He is a nightmare to deal with.

• Sally sell seashells by the seashore.

Meter is best defined as...

• Two rhyming lines

• The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

• A line or set of lines that is repeated in a poem

• A word that mimics a sound

A couplet is best defined as...

• Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines

• A set of two rhyming lines

• The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

• The units a poem is broken into

How many stanzas are in this poem?

• 4

• 8

• 25

• 6

A line that is repeated, at regular intervals, in different stanzas is...

• a couplet

• a stanza

• end rhyme

• a refrain