Poetry and Figurative Language Quiz

 A group of lines within a poem, usually broken apart by spaces, much like a paragraph.

• Line

• Stanza

• Paragraph

• Couplet

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.4

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The main topic, idea, or subject of poem.

• Theme

• Topic Sentence

• It is in the main stanza

• Thesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Words start with the same sound and used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Personification

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

Using the same word, phrase, line, or stanza in a poem. This is usually repeated two or more times. 

• Refrain

• Couplet

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

Direct comparison of two unlike things that does not use the words "like" or "as".

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

When a non-living thing is given human-like qualities

• Personification

• Personable

• Allusion

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Words that have the same final sound. 

• Rhyme

• Reason

• Couplet

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

The pattern of rhymes usually identified by assigning a letter to each rhyme at the end of a line of poetry. 

• Repetition

• Rhymer

• Rhyme Scheme

• Reading

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

A word or phrase that means something different than its literal meaning. 

• Poetry

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.4.3