Poetry Quiz Review--Terms & Vocab

Match the following

• repetition of vowel sounds

• internal rhyme

• repetition of consonant sounds

• assonance

• repetition of beginning consonant sounds

• alliteration

• rhyming of two or more words within a line

• consonance

Match the following

• repetition of words at the beginning of a clause

• anaphora

• repetition of words at the end of a clause

• onomatopoeia

• words that imitate their sound

• epistrophe

Match the following

• comparison of two unlike things by equating one to the other

• idiom

• a common phrase or figure of speech not meant to be taken literally

• simile

• comparision of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

Match the following

• extreme exaggeration

• hyperbole

• giving human qualities/traits to non-human things

• allusion

• reference to a famous person, event, literary work, etc.

• personification

Match the following

• general area surrounding a place

• kiln

• dried, fired clay

• vicinity

• religious act seen as a sign of belief or promise

• sacrament

• language spoken in the Middle East

• Arabic

• oven used to dry pottery

• bisque

Match the following

• collapsed; fallen to the floor

• scorched

• heavy

• radiant

• hesitantly; in an unsure way

• ponderous

• bright, shining, glowing

• haltingly

• burned

• crumpled