Reading Poetry

What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses?

• stanza

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

What is the meaning of the word "rhyme"?

• able to make or do something new or with imagination.

• a word that ends with the same or almost the same sound as another word.

• a phrase that describes something by comparing it to some other thing.

Words that end in the same sound or sounds.

• Rhyme

• Dew

• Quatrain

• Veteran

An indirect reference to an outside work of an art or a cultural figure.

• Fluster

• Implied metaphor

• Allusion

• Quatrain

This term means a four-line stanza.

A comparison that is not made directly.

• Allusion

• Rhythm

• Rhyme Scheme

• Implied Metaphor

The poet uses onomatopoeia in lines 5 and 6 to -

• show that a storm is coming to the town

• show that wind is rustling through the trees

• give the reader a sense of hearing strange sounds

• give the reader a sense of stumbling in the dark

The mood in the first stanza of the poem is best described as--

• peaceful

• hectic

• terrifying

• confusing

The poet uses the word "Echoes" in this poem to--

• show how frightened the speaker is

• explain what the speaker sees in the night

• show the speaker hears sounds in the distance

• show that the town is empty

Read line 20 from the poem. Eyes glow The poet uses this line to --

• describe what the animals are doing at night

• show that the speaker is starteled in the dark

• explain that the moon is making the town very bright

• show that the speaker sees the moon reflecting in his/her eyes