Poetry Elements

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author

• Speaker

• Narrator

• Main character

Define "rhyme."

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

• The repetition of a letter.

• The repetition of an ending sound.

What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.

• Words that sound alike.

• An exaggeration.

• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyberbole

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

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Simile

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain

• Rhyme

• Meter

• Simile

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs

• Sentences & stanzas

• Lines & paragraphs

• Lines & stanzas

A group of lines in a poem separated with a blank line space.

• metaphor

• simile

• line

• stanza

What is a sonnet?

• Only 3 lines

  Only 17 Syllables

  It doesn't have to rhyme

• 14 line poem

  ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Rhyme Scheme

  10 syllables in each line

• Has one stanza with 5 lines

  AABBA Rhyming Pattern

  Usually tells a silly story

• First lineis 5 syllables

  Second line is 7 syllables

  Third line is 5 syllables