8th grade 3rd Six Weeks Review READING only23-24

A group of lines in a poem

is called

• stanza

• paragraph

• line break

• form

The use of

words that vividly describe a sound

(the word mimics the sound)

so that readers can clearly "hear" them

is called____.

For example: buzz, crash, bang.

• rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

A comparison of

two different things

using "like" or "as"

is called

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

A figure of speech that

gives human-like characteristics

to an abstract idea

or non-human thing

is called

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

A direct comparison of two unlike things

that does NOT use like or as

is called

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

• Allusion

• Free Verse

• Rhythm

• Enjambment

A "shift" in a poem  is a change in the speakers

• theme
• tone
• mood 
• tone and mood 

Crash, ZOINK, Moo, BOOM, and POP are examples of

• alliteration

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• poetry

Descriptive writing that appeals to any of our five senses

• repetition

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery or sensory language

The narrator of a poem is the ______?

• author
• speaker
• poet
• audience