Poetry Terms

What is Alliteration?

• Alliteration is the repetition of final consonant sounds in neighboring words within a sentence or phrase.
• Alliteration is the repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words within a sentence or phrase.
• Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words within a sentence or phrase.
• Alliteration is the repetition of random sounds in neighboring words within a sentence or phrase.

What is Assonance?

• Assonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words.
• Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
• Assonance is a type of punctuation mark.
• Assonance is the use of onomatopoeia in poetry.

What is Hyperbole?

• A type of fruit
• A scientific theory
• A form of poetry
• An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally.

What is a Metaphor?

• A Metaphor is a type of poetry.

• A Metaphor is an overexaggeration.

• A Metaphor is a comparison between two things using like or as.

• A Metaphor is a direct comparison between two unlike things that have something important in common.

What is Onomatopoeia?

• A word that imitates the sound it represents.
• An overexaggeration.

• A comparison between two unlike things.

• Repetition of the initial consonant sound.

What is an Oxymoron?

• Oxymoron occurs when inanimate objects are endowed with human qualities or abilities.

• An Oxymoron is the name of the rhyme at the end of lines of poems.
  

• An Oxymoron is a comparison between two like things.

  
  

• Oxymoron occurs when opposite or contradictory terms appear together.

What is Personification?

• Personification occurs when there is a play on words that exploits multiple meanings of a word or similar sounding words.

• Personification occurs when the end of each line of poem rhymes.

• Personification occurs when inanimate objects are given human qualities or abilities.

• Personification occurs when two unlike things are put side by side.

What is a Pun?

• A pun is a play on words that exploits multiple meanings of a word or similar sounding words.

• A pun is an overexaggeration.

• A pun is another name for the stanza of a poem.

• A pun is when there is a comparison using like or as.

What is Imagery?

• Imagery is descriptive language that appeals to the senses.
• Imagery is a type of photograph.

• Imagery is the use of figurative language in writing.

• Imagery is a type of music genre.

What is a Simile?

• A simile compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'.

• A simile compares two different things.

• A simile has repetition of the same sound.

• A simile is a metaphor.