Poetry Skills

comparing two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

Several lines grouped together in a poem

• line

• stanza

• poetry

• repetition

On the beautiful summer night, the trees danced in the breeze is an example of ...

• alliteration

• personification

• rhyme

• stanza

comparing two things WITHOUT using LIKE or AS is called

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• stanza

Crash, ZOINK, Moo, BOOM, and POP are examples of

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• poetry

When two or more words have the same ending sound, it is called

• scheme

• rhyme

• alliteration

• repetition

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• A fat cat sat on a rat.

• Moooooooo went the cow.

• Tommy took Tatiana to Target.

Personification give non-living objects human like qualities.

• True

• False

What is assonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry