Poetry Quiz: Figurative Language

Repetition of sounds at the ends of words.

Example: "Roses are red, violets are blue, / Sugar is sweet, and so are you."

• alliteration

• imagery

• rhyme

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses

Writers use imagery to describe how their subjects look, sound, feel, taste, and smell

Poets often paint images, or word pictures, that also appeal to your senses.

example: The autumn leaves are a blanket on the ground.

Example:

• imagery

• alliteration

• tone

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

Writers use this to draw attention to certain words or ideas to imitate sounds and to create musical effects 

examples: A good cook could cook as many cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.

Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. ...

• mood

• symbolism

• alliteration

• tone

Repetition refers to the use of the same word or phrase multiple times and is a fundamental poetic technique.

Use, more than once, of any element of language- A sound, word, phrase clause or sentence

Examples: Time after time.

Heart to heart.

Boys will be boys.

Hand in hand.

Get ready; get set; go.

Hour to hour.

Sorry, not sorry.

Over and over.

• tone

• alliteration

• repetition

• mood

Writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject 

Often be described by an adjective such as formal or informal, serious or playful, bitter or ironic

examples: Cheerful.

Dry.

Assertive.

Lighthearted.

Regretful.

Humorous.

Pessimistic.

Nostalgic.

• imagery

• symbolism

• tone

• mood

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader.

examples: romantic, realistic, optimistic, pessimistic, gloomy, mournful, sorrowful, etc.

• imagery

• tone

• mood

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Used represent something beyond the literal meaning

Symbols could be words, people, marks, locations, or abstract ideas 

examples: rainbow–symbolizes hope and promise.

red rose–symbolizes love and romance.

four-leaf clover–symbolizes good luck or fortune.

wedding ring–symbolizes commitment and matrimony.

red, white, blue–symbolizes American patriotism.

green traffic light–symbolizes “go” or proceed.

• tone

• imagery

• symbolism

• mood

Check all that are the organization of poetry.

Check all that apply

• couplet

• stanza

• structure

• lines

• tercet and quatrain

Group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces

example: Hey Jude, don’t make it bad

Take a sad song and make it better

Remember to let her into your heart

Then you can start to make it better

• couplet

• line

• stanza

• quatrain

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

example: For example, a four-line poem in which the first line rhymes with the third line, and the second line rhymes with the fourth line has the rhyme scheme ABAB, ...

• couplet

• stanza

• rhyme scheme

• quatrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4