7 Core Poetry Revision

What is alliteration?

• Words repeating

• Repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words.

• Words that represent sounds we hear.

• Giving an object a human trait

What is the rhyme pattern?

• AA B CC B

• AA BB CC

• AB AB AC

• AA BC BC

The Sun strolled across the sky.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Oxymoron

Hyperbole is....

• Exaggerated statements that are not literally true

• Repetition of words

• Comparing objects

• Giving a human trait to an object

Personification is....

• Giving an object a human trait

• Comparing objects

• Words that represent sounds that we hear

• Exaggerated statements

Repetition is...

• A word or phrase repeating.

• Exaggerated statements

• The same vowel sound preceding different consonants.

• Words that represent the sounds that we hear.

A simile is....

• Words for the sounds we hear.

• Comparing one thing with another

• Giving an object a human trait.

• Exaggerated statements.

Assonance is...

• Repeating vowel sounds followed by different consonants.

• Repeating words.

• Comparing objects.

• Beginning sounds/letters repeating.

Which of the following are examples of personification?

• He was as brave as a lion.

• The boy was cold like ice.

• The flames ate hungrily at the burning house.

• Lighting danced across the sky.

a three lined poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern; usually about nature

• free verse

• haiku

• limerick

• ballad