Poetry Vocabulary

A group of lines in a poem

• onomatopoeia

• stanza

• simile

• hyperbole

"Life is like a box of chocolates" is a:

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• metaphor

"The trees were dancing in the wind" is an example of:

• hyperbole

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• personification

"Boom!" is an example of:

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• hyperbole

• rhythm

"It's raining cats and dogs" is a(n):

• hyperbole

• simile

• idiom

• metaphor

"Life is a highway" is a(n):

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

A pattern of stressed an unstressed syllables

• couplet

• quatrain

• stanza

• rhythm

"There once was a man from Peru/who dreamed he was eating his shoe" is a(n):

• idiom

• couplet

• quatrain

• stanza

"I am so hungry I could eat a horse!" is a

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

• couplet

A group of four lines in a poem is a(n):

• quatrain

• couplet

• rhythm

• idiom