Poetry Terms

What gives human qualities to something that is non-human?

• Sensory Language 
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia 
• Personification 

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

What is the use of any element of language, more than once?

• Repetition 
• Rhyme
• Alliteration 
• Rhythm 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

What is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses? 

• Alliteration 
• Onomatopoeia 
• Hyperbole 
• Sensory Language 

Tags

CCSS.W.7.3D

What uses like or as to compare two apparently unlike things?

• Metaphor 
• Hyperbole 
• Simile 
• Repetition 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

What is the use of words that imitate sounds? (Crash, bang, hiss, slpat)

• Sensory Language 
• Hyperbole 
• Figurative Language 
• Onomatopoeia 

A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space. This is like the paragraph of poetry

• stanza
• refrain
• ballad
• chorus

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain
• Rhyme
• Meter
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words?

• Repetition 
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Rhyme 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True

• False

What is the message of a poem called?

• Imagery

• Tone

• Theme

• Mood