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.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

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.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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