Poetry Terms and Analysis Review

Define "rhyme."

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
• The repetition of a letter.
• The repetition of an ending sound.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

_____ is the literary device that engages the human senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch).

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Simile

• Memory

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is it called when a writer refers to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, or piece of literature?

• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

A group of lines in poetry is called

• a stanza

• rhyme scheme

• rhyming

• verses

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.5

The pattern of rhyming in poetry is known as

• a stanza

• rhyming

• rhyme scheme

• verses

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5