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Poetry Terms and Figurative Language

Authored by Becky Gerhart

English

10th Grade

CCSS covered

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Poetry Terms and Figurative Language
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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the repetition of the first consonant sound of a word. For example the "w" sound: "when white moths were on the wing" from "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by W.B. Yeats

Alliteration

Assonance

Couplet

Diction

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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the repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words - For example: "Wanders and watches, with eager ears" from "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Alliteration

Assonance

Couplet

Diction

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

Alliteration

Assonance

Couplet

Diction

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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A writer's or speaker's choice of words

Alliteration

Assonance

Couplet

Diction

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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a metaphor that is applied throughout the entire poem. The poem "The Railway Train" by Emily Dickinson is an extended metaphor.

Extended metaphor

Figurative Language

Hyperbole

Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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language used to create a particular effect - not meant to be taken literally. Forms of figurative language include simile, metaphor, and personification.

Extended metaphor

Figurative Language

Hyperbole

Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Extreme exaggeration to make a point. For example: The speaker in the poem "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes states "I, too, am America." He creates a hyperbole when he states that he is America.

Extended metaphor

Figurative Language

Hyperbole

Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

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