8th Grade Poetry Quiz

Define Metaphor

• A comparison using Like or As

• When two things are similar in meaning

• Comparing two things without using like or as

• A peice of evidence that means something else

Define Personification

• The author of the poem

• The character that is the protagonist of the poem

• When a person is the main character of a poem

• When human characteristics are given to un-human things

Define Assonance

• The order in which the poem is read

• also referred to as “vowel rhyme,” is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry

• The end of a poem

• When a poem rhymes

Define Consonance

• The way in which each line of a poem is formatted. Mainly focusing on the consonant sound

• A collection of stars

• correspondence or recurrence of consonant sounds especially in words specifically

• A constant word the author of the poem uses

Define Internal Rhyme

• When the rhyming only happens inside a poem

• a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next

• Rhyme that occurs in the middle of a poem

• When you can not understand the meaning of a poem

Define End Rhyme

• used throughout the poem, at the ends the lines of poetry, to create a rhyming pattern or rhyme scheme

• When the rhyming happens at the beginning of a line of poetry

• When the poem only rhymes at the end

• When a poem is over after it ryhmes

How many stanzas are in the followin poem...

The rose is a rose,And was always a rose.

But the theory now goesThat the apple’s a rose,

And the pear is, and so’sThe plum, I suppose.

The dear only knowsWhat will next prove a rose.

You, of course, are a rose –But were always a rose.

• 1

• 5

• 2

• 3

Define Rhythmn

• a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

• A beat

• When someone claps the words of a poem

• A dance you do while reading poetry

Define Rhyme Scheme

• The way a poem rhymes when you read it

• The alphabet

• ABCDEFG

• the pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.

What purpose does the SPEAKER serve in a poem?

• Reading the poem out loud

• The person or character who communicates the words of the poem

• The person who wrote the poem

• The author of the poem