poetry

Words that have the same ending sound

• rhythm

• rhyme

• line break

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

• metaphor
• simile
• line
• stanza

To which of the five senses does the following sentence or phrase appeal?

When I walked into the room, I was immediately surrounded with the aroma of homemade cookies.

• smell

• taste

• sight

• hear

When two or more words have the same ending sound, it is called

• scheme

• rhyme

• alliteration

• repetition

What type of fig. language is the following sentence:

She is as beautiful as a rose.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

comparing two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

Little Lady Icicle is waking in the north-land, 
And shaking in the north-land her pillow to and fro; 
And the hurricane a-skirling 
Sends the feathers all a-whirling 
Where little Lady Icicle is waking in the snow. 

• This stanza shows IMAGERY.
• This stanza shows SIMILE.

Poems never contain figurative language.

• True

• False

Poems are often divided into lines and stanzas.

• True

• False

Which type of poetry came from Japan and is usually written about nature?

• free verse

• haiku

• diamante

• acrostic