English Poetry

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author

• Speaker

• Narrator

• Main Character

Rhyme is _____________

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as."

• The repetition of a letter

• The repetition of an ending sound

• Describing a thought

What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing is another?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

The way a poem looks is its ____________.

• Stanza

• Set-up

• Structure

• Sentences

Poems are arranged in lines. Lines can be ___________.

• A single word

• A sentence

• A part of sentence

• All of the above

Groups of lines are called ______________.

• Sentences

• Stanzas

• Tony Danzas

• Line groupings

What figurative language is used in this sentence?

"The boy was as fast as a rocket as he sped by on his bicycle"

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Free verse poetry does not have_______

• stanzas

• plot or conflict

• meter or rhythm

• serious topic

All are found in poetry except___________

• rhyme scheme

• rhythm

• paragraphs

• stanza

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs

• Sentences & stanzas

• Lines & paragraphs

• Lines & stanzas