Poetry Unit Vocabulary

Which of the following words mean a play on words?

• Alliteration

• Tone

• Pun

• Hyperbole

Which of the following words mean a group of lines in a poem?

• Stanza

• Quatrain

• Free Verse

• Assonance

Which of the following words mean a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

• Allegory

• Characterization

• Pun

• Allusion

Which of the following words mean a stanza in a poem made up of 4 lines?

• Quatrain

• Rhyme

• Prose

• Free Verse

Which of the following words mean the structure of a sentence?

• Diction

• Syntax

• Tone

• Theme

Which of the following words mean repetition of sounds at the ends of words?

• Assonance

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Which of the following words mean descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader?

• Extended Metaphor

• Imagery

• Personification

• Paradox

Which of the following words mean poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme?

• Free Verse

• Quatrain

• Iambic Pentameter

• Rhythm

Which of the following words mean the use of words and imitate sounds?

• Oxymoron

• Prose

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

Which of the following words mean a type of figurative language where a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics?

• Assonance

• Personification

• Diction

• Syntax