Poetry Terms Review

The light from the porthole was pulsing purple.

This is an example of...

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Personification

Don't be such a Scrooge! The tickets are only $5.

This is an example of...

• Allusion

• Apostrophe

• Couplet

• Dactyl

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;"

This is an example of...

• Apostrophe

• Synesthesia

• Syntax

• Onomatopoeia

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

In the forests of the night;

This is an example of...

• Assonance

• Hyperbole

• Anapest

• Onomatopoeia

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

This is an example of...

• Caesura

• Enjambment

• Simile

• Litotes

The zoo was amazing, especially the lizards and chimpanzees.

This is an example of...

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

"For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."

This is an example of....

• Couplet

• Octave

• Quatrain

• Trochee

I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said -- "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert...

This is an example of...

• Enjambment

• Caesura

• Litotes

• Paradox

Here once the embattled farmers stood

And fired the shot heard round the world.

This is an example of...

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Internal Rhyme

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

This is an example of...

• Internal Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Octave

• Rhyme Scheme