Poetry Terms Review

Match the following terms with their definitions.

• the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem

• alliteration

• the repetition of vowel sounds within words

• consonance

• when the meaning of the word is reflected in its sound

• onomatopoeia

• the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words

• assonance

• the repetition of consonant sounds within words

• rhyme scheme

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower" is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• analogy

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CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"The air is drugged with azalea blossoms" is an example of...

• metaphor

• personification

• symbolism

• allusion

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

"There's a smell of damp hay,/ of horses..." is imagery appealing to which of the five senses?

• visual

• auditory

• tactile

• olfactory

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Life is some kind of loathsome hag who is forever threatening to turn beautiful" is an example of--

• symbolism

• apostrophe

• allusion

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"And even Earls Must comb their curls/ And even Kings Have underthings" is an example of--

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• parallelism

• internal rhyme

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"So I am proud only of those days that we pass in undivided tenderness..." is an example of:

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• rhythm

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"So Eden sank to grief" is an example of--

• imagery

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"A terrible beauty is born," is an example of--

• repetition

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• analogy

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

"While I nodded, nearly napping..." is an example of--

• consonance

• assonance

• repetition

• alliteration

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4