Poetry Terms Quiz

Definition: an exaggerated statement used to make a point

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Definition: compares two things without using the words "like" or "as"

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Definition: occurs when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem creating a pattern and increasing rhythm.

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Repetition

Definition: gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human - like animals or objects.

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Metaphor

• Personification

Definition: the most common stanza used in poetry, a poem or stanza of four lines.

• Tercet

• Stanza

• Quatrain

• Couplet

Definition: a poem of only three lines.

• Couplet

• Free Verse

• Quatrain

• Tercet

Definition: words that represent the actual sound of something.

• Personification

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Metaphor

Definition: lines 1 & 4 rhyme, and lines 2 & 3 rhyme.

• Personification

• Free Verse

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyming Pattern ABBA

Definition: the most common sound device in poetry.

• Rhyme

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Mood

Definition: the repetition of the first consonant sound in words

• Consonance

• Personification

• Repetition

• Alliteration