Poetry and Drama Vocabulary Quiz

a collection of words written to inspire ideas, imagination, or emotion

• poem

• stanza

• verse

• drama

a group of lines in a poem

• speaker

• poem

• stanza

• verse

lines that make up the poem

• stanza

• script

• verse

• sentence

the one speaking to the reader.

• script

• dialogue

• speaker

• narrator

the beat, sound, and feel of a poem.

• rhyme

• poem

• sound

• rhythm

compares two things using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

compares two things but does not use "like" or "as"

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• idiom

a group of words with a meaning that is different from their literal meaning.

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

makes a non-human thing seem human

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• personification

exaggerations that are not meant to be taken seriously

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration