Poetry Quiz Review--Terms & Vocab

Match the following

• repetition of vowel sounds

• alliteration

• repetition of consonant sounds

• consonance

• rhyming of two or more words within a line

• assonance

• repetition of beginning consonant sounds

• internal rhyme

Match the following

• words that imitate their sound

• anaphora

• repetition of words at the end of a clause

• epistrophe

• repetition of words at the beginning of a clause

• onomatopoeia

Match the following

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

• simile

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

• idiom

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

• metaphor

Match the following

• extreme exaggeration

• personification

• giving human qualities/traits to non-human things

• hyperbole

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

• allusion

Match the following

• language spoken in the Middle East

• bisque

• dried, fired clay

• vicinity

• oven used to dry pottery

• sacrament

• general area surrounding a place

• Arabic

• religious act seen as a sign of belief or promise

• kiln

Match the following

• heavy

• ponderous

• bright, shining, glowing

• radiant

• hesitantly; in an unsure way

• crumpled

• burned

• haltingly

• collapsed; fallen to the floor

• scorched