CKLA Poetry Terms Practice

What is comparing two things using the words “like” or “as” called?

• theme
• rhyme
• metaphor
• simile

What is the voice of who’s telling the poem like the narrator in a story?

• stanza
• audience
• anaphora
• speaker

What is the repetition of words (or phrases) at the start of a series of lines in a poem for dramatic effect called?

• form
• anaphora
• rhyme scheme
• rhyme

What are words that end in the same consonant sound or vowel and consonant sounds called?

• rhyme
• form
• tone
• mood

What is the poet’s attitude about the subject or topic in a poem?

• form
• tone
• mood
• audience

What is the physical shape, structure, or appearance of a piece of writing called?

• line
• form
• stanza
• theme

What is the atmosphere and emotions the poet sets in the poem called?

• audience
• speaker
• mood
• apostrophe

What is comparing two things that are not the same as if they were the same called?

• mood
• metaphor
• tone
• form

What is the pattern of repeated rhyming words in a poem called?

• form
• tone
• mood
• rhyme scheme

What is a group of lines in a poem, like paragraphs in a story, called?

• theme
• stanza
• form
• line