Week 23 Vocabulary Practice

What is something called when it is lifeless and not able to grow anything?

• barren

• plumes

• expression

• meter

Putting thoughts or feelings into words or actions is called an

• meaningful

• barren

• alliteration

• expression

If something is meaningful, it...

• has not purpose

• has all of the great qualities

• has importance or a purpose

• it is lifeless and nothing can grow

What word means big fluffy, feathers or feathery parts?

• barren

• soft

• expression

• plumes

What is alliteration?

• very descriptive language used to appeal to all of your senses

• the repetition of the same consonant at the beginning of a group of words

• a group of lines in a poem

• the repetition of rhyming words at the end of lines

What type of poem expresses personal feelings that uses a regular meter, or pattern of sounds?

What type of poem expresses a poet’s ideas and feelings with carefully chosen words that do not have a set rhyming pattern, meter, or line length?

What is a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables called?

• repetition

• rhyme

• meter

• stanza

A stanza is...

• a group of lines in a poem

• the single line of a poem

• a paragraph

• the group of words that rhyme

Very descriptive language used to appeal to all of your senses is called...

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery