ELA Poetry Questions

two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem 

• stanza 
• mood
• rhyme 
• rhythm 

how the reader feels about the story/poem

• stanza 
• mood
• rhyme 
• rhythm 

have or end with a sound that corresponds to another

• stanza 
• mood
• rhyme 
• rhythm 

a strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement of sound

• stanza 
• mood
• rhyme 
• rhythm 

giving human qualities to animals or nonliving things 

• personification 
• simile 
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

making a comparison between two unlike things using "like," "as," or "than." 

• personification 
• simile 
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

an exaggeration or overstatement 

• personification 
• simile 
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

the use of words whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (zipped)

• personification 
• simile 
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia

the repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together 

• alliteration 
• assonance 
• idiom
• cliche 

repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds 

• alliteration 
• assonance 
• idiom
• cliche