Poetry Terms Practice

The writer’s attitude towards a subject

• tone

• mood

• rhyme

• meter

Which literary device is used to give human characteristics to non-human objects or abstract ideas?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

What does the term 'imagery' refer to in literature?

• The rhythm of a poem

• The use of symbols

• The use of descriptive language to evoke sensory experience

• The moral of the story

What does 'mood' refer to in literature?

• The writer's attitude towards the subject

• The structure of the poem

• The emotional feeling or atmosphere that a work of literature produces in a reader

• The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song

writing that is short and articulate

• ode

• concision

• couplet

• free verse

placing two things next to one another for contrasting effect

• juxtaposition

• metaphor

• simile

• allusion

What literary device involves the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

Words that imitate sounds.

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Vernacular

Poetry with no regular rhyme, rhythm or line length.

• Narrative Poetry

• Free Verse Poetry

• Rhyme

• Lyrical Poetry

Repetition of vowel sounds in lines of poetry.

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance