Poetry Term Review

Match the following terms with their definitions.

• the repetition of vowel sounds within words

• alliteration

• the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem

• consonance

• the repetition of consonant sounds within words

• rhyme scheme

• the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words

• onomatopoeia

• when the meaning of the word is reflected in its sound

• assonance

"Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower" is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• analogy

"The air is drugged with azalea blossoms" is an example of...

• metaphor

• personification

• symbolism

• allusion

"There's a smell of damp hay,/ of horses..." is imagery appealing to which of the five senses?

• visual

• auditory

• tactile

• olfactory

"Life is some kind of loathsome hag who is forever threatening to turn beautiful" is an example of--

• symbolism

• apostrophe

• allusion

• metaphor

"And even Earls Must comb their curls/ And even Kings Have underthings" is an example of--

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• parallelism

• internal rhyme

"So I am proud only of those days that we pass in undivided tenderness..." is an example of:

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

• assonance

• rhythm

"So Eden sank to grief" is an example of--

• imagery

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• simile

"A terrible beauty is born," is an example of--

• repetition

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• analogy

"While I nodded, nearly napping..." is an example of--

• consonance

• assonance

• repetition

• alliteration