Poetry Terms

What is metaphor?

• exaggeration for effect

• a comparison of unlike things without using like or as

• a comparison of unlike things using like or as

• repeition of intial consonant sound

What is alliteration?

• repetition of initial consonant sounds

• repetition of sounds at the end of words

• repetition of vowel sounds in the words that are close together

• a regular pattern of ryhming words in a poem

What is a couplet?

• a combination of contradictory words or phrases

• a pair of rhyming lines written in the same meter

• a statement that, while apparently self-contradictory, is nonetheless essentially true

• a fourteen line lyric poem focused on a single theme

What is parallelism?

• a story in which characters and events are symbols that stand for truths about human life

• a word, phrase, or thing that stands for something beyond itself

• the technique of showing that words, phrases, and clauses are comparbale in context and importance

• use of words that imitate sounds

What is an allegory?

• a narrative poem that tells a simple and dramatic story that is usually intended to be sung

• a fourteen line lyric poem focused on a single theme

• a poem that expresses the poet's thoughts and feelings

• a story in which the characters and events are aymbols that stand for truths about human life

What is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem?

• rhyme scheme

• refrain

• rhythm

• rhyme

What is onomatopoeia?

• a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

• use of words that imitate sounds

• repetition of sounds at the end of words

• a word, phrase, line or group of lines that is repeated regularly

Which of these means "giving nonhuman objects human characteristics?"

• personification

• alliteration

• assonance

• paradox

What is a fourteen-line poem about love that ends with a couplet is?

• sonnet

• allegory

• parallelism

• oxymoron

The Tortoise and the Hare is an example of...

• metaphor

• allegory

• sonnet

• lyric poem