Poetry terminology

"_____________" is the author’s use of descriptive or sensory words to create a picture in the reader’s mind.

• Poetry

• Imagery

• Stanza

• Scansion

"_____________" is when human qualities are given to things. For example: The wind whispered, and the trees shuddered with cold.

• Scansion

• Imagery

• Stanza

• Personification

"_____________" are two lines of a poem that rhyme with each other.

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Rhyming couplets

• Rhyming triplets

"_____________" is the comparison of two things using like or as, for example: It’s as smooth as silk. Her smile was like sunshine.

• Metaphor

• Smile

• Simile

• Smiley

"_____________" is the genre of literature which is an expression of ideas and feelings in words, usually having form, figurative language, rhythm, and rhyme.

• Poem

• Peom

• Peotry

• Poetry

"_____________" is a group of related lines in a poem; the paragraph of poetry.

• Stanze

• Paragraph

• Stanza

• Scansion

"_____________" is a sound device, the rhythm and measurement of beats of a poem.

• Meter

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Metric

"_____________" is when two words end with the same vowel sounds. For example: Home/alone, same/insane, cool/rule, tree/me

• Rhyme scheme

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Rhythmic

"_____________" is a sound device where sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas are repeated for emphasis.

• Rhyme scheme

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Repetition

"_____________" is the repetition of an initial consonant in two, or more, words.

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Alligator