Poetry Unit Review

Match the definition: A comparison that describes one thing as if it were another.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

Match the definition to the term: words that end in both the same vowel and same consonant sounds

Ex: sun and run

• Exact/true rhyme

• Slant rhyme

• Spondee

• Consonance

Substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it

• Hyperbole

• Assonance

• Caesura

• Metonymy

Use of words to create a picture In the reader's mind. Uses the 5 senses to create it.

• Imagery

• Synecdoche

• Symbol

• Iamb

a statement, an idea, or a situation that seems contradictory but actually expresses a truth

EX: The more things change, the more things stay the same

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words. The snake sneaked past the snacks.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

a pause or break In a line of poetry

• Consonance

• End rhyme

• Stanza

• Caesura

The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds.

EX: The king sang a song

• Personification

• Quatrain

• Caesura

• Consonance

a lyric poem on a serious subject, written very precise

• Ballad

• Ode

• Concrete poem

• English Sonnet

What country do haikus come from?

• Japan

• Uruguay

• China

• Panama