Poetry Quiz

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Repetition

• Theme

A group of lines in a poem

is called

• stanza

• paragraph

• line break

• form

It was July, and the sun

toasted the emerald grass

until it smelled of warmth

and green and life.

It was July, and my heart

soaked up the air warmth

until it sang of joy

and love and life.

How many stanzas in the poem above?

• This poem has 1 stanza

• This poem has 2 stanzas

• This poem has 4 stanzas

• This poem has 8 stanzas

A comparison of

two different things

using "like" or "as"

is called

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

 A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities. For example, “The sky looked like an artist’s canvas.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Alliteration

A situation or statement in which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what was expected.

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Symbolism

A  figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; for example, “my love is a fragile flower.”

• Simile

• Symbolism

• Rhyme Scheme

• Metaphor

The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as “hiss,” “buzz,” “slam,” and “boom.”

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Rhyme Scheme

A piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds, especially. at the ends of lines

• Rhyme

• Repetition

• Symbolism

• Assonance

The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines, such as ababbcc.

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme