Poetry and Figurative Language Terms

The writer of a poem is called...

• speaker

• narrator

• author

• poet

What is poetry? Choose the best answer.

• Poetry is a type of fiction writing.

• Poetry has many different genres.

• fictional literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)

• None of the above.

A line is or can be

• a word or group of words arranged in a row.

• a group of ducks.

• None of the above

Poems have to rhyme (true or false?)

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which of the following is NOT found in poems?

• rhythm

• lines

• stanzas

• paragraphs

Lines are grouped in

• segments

• stanzas

• alphabetical order

• random order

What does the author use to show rhythm in this poem?

I'm car sick

open a window

I'm car sick

rest your eyes

I'm car sick

drink some water

I'm car sick

please pull over

• rhyme

• alliteration

• repetition

• hyperbole

A stanza is

a deliberate, exaggerated statement

• mood

• tone

• metaphor

• hyperbole

-------------------- is

a regular pattern of rhyming words.