Poetry Vocabulary

What is a word that imitates sound

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• meter

What is a comparison using like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

What is a comparison not using like or as

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• metaphor

What is a repetition of the same beginning sound

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• personification

What is it called when a poet is giving human characteristics to nonliving things

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

What is the repetition of the same sound from the final vowel to the end of the word in 2 or more lines

• rhyme

• rhythm

• meter

• metaphor

What is it called when the sounds of the words in the poem follow a pattern (similar to the beat of a song)?

• meter

• free verse

• rhythm

• rhyme

What is the pattern of beats in poetry?

• meter

• rhyme

• rhythm

• alliteration

What type of poetry

-Tells a story

-Can have rhyme and rhythm

-Can be real or made up

• lyrical

• narrative

• free verse

What type of poem has

-Song like with the rhythm and pattern

-Often rhymes

• lyrical

• narrative

• free verse