Poetry Terms Review

What is the musical quality created by a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?

• Rhyme

• Rhyme scheme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is a group of words together on the same row?

• Line

• Stanza

• Simile

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words?

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

What is a group of lines arranged together?

• Line

• Stanza

• Mood

• Poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

The narrator of the poem is called ...

• Poet

• Speaker

• Tone

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the use of words that imitate the sounds they describe?

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

___________ is the attitude the writer or the speaker takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.

• Mood

• Rhythm

• Tone

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

____________ is the feeling or atmosphere perceived by the reader.

• Mood

• Tone

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

What figurative language gives human qualities or traits to an animal or object?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbola

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

What figurative language is an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression?

• Idiom

• Allusion

• Symbolism

• Hyperbola

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3