Poetry Review

The narrator of a poem is called the:

• Speaker

• Author

These emphasize sound and give poetry its musical quality:

• Figurative language

• Sound devices

Words that end in the same sound (ex: hat and cat)

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis (ex: nevermore)

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words that are close together (ex: while I nodded, nearly napping)

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

A word that sounds like what it means (ex: boom)

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

When the test began, the guys grimaced and groaned.

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

The steaks sizzled on the grill.

• Onomatopoeia

• Repetition

• Rhyme

The apartment was on the top floor—a small living-room, a small dining-room, a small bedroom, and a bath.

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

"I do not like green eggs and ham.

I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

I would not like them here or there.

I would not like them anywhere."

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration