High School Poetry Unit

What do you call it when there is a repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words

• Simile

• Stanza

• Alliteration

• Goobersmooch

What term best represents an unrhymed form of poetry which normally consists of ten syllables in which every over syllable, beginning with the second, is stressed.

• Free Verse

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Blank Verse

A short verse intended to express the emotions of the author; often set to music.

• Rhythm

• Lyric

• Flows

• Rhymes

A lyric poem written to someone or something. It is serious and elevated in tone.

• Ballad

• Ode

• Lyric Poem

• Tribute

What term represents the collection of visuals in a work of literature...words or representations that appeal to the five senses... Visuals create a picture or sensation of sound, touch, smell, taste.

• Imagery

• Meter

• Sights

• Onomatopoeia

What term represents the repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonants?

• Metaphor

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Simile

This is what you would call one of the divisions of a poem having two or more lines.

• Quatrain

• Stanza

• Verse

• Costanza

What aspect of poetry uses similar sounding words at regular intervals , usually at the end of lines.

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• Quatrain

In the classic Rap song, "Just a Friend" by Biz Markie contains the chorus:

You, you got what I need but you say he's just a friend

And you say he's just a friend, oh baby

You, you got what I need but you say he's just a friend

But you say he's just a friend, oh baby

You, you got what I need but you say he's just a friend

But you say he's just a friend

A chorus in poetry can also be referred to as a?

• Repetition

• Refrain

• Sonnet

• Rhymed Verse

When there is a repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry it is referred to as?

• Alliteration

• Yard

• Meter

• Free Verse