Poetry Vocabulary practice

Form of writing that is written in lines; these lines can be grouped together to make stanzas, and may repeat, or have rhyme.

• Poetry

• hyperbole

• personification

• slant rhyme

A _ makes a comparison between 2 unlike things, using like or as.

• Onomatopoeia

• simile

• prose

• Alliteration

This is a pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song.

• drama

• onomatopoeia

• poetry

• Rhyme scheme

The repetition of a constant sound at the beginning of words.

• Alliteration

• stanza

• idiom

• simile

A specific kind of pattern or flow among the syllables in a verse.

• poetry

• rythm

• slant rhyme

• personification

A deliberate exaggeration.

• metaphor

• Alliteration

• hyperbole

• stanza

A _______ is a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of poem.

in this form of figurative language the phrase means something totally different than what the actual words state.

• idiom

• line-verse

• drama

• poetry

Words that imitate sounds.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Form of writing that tells a story using a cast of characters

• personification

• prose

• drama

• rhyme scheme