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Poetic Terms

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

8th Grade

CCSS covered

Poetic Terms
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

deliberate exaggeration made for effect

hyperbole

extended metaphor

paraphrase

enjambment

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

a type of figurative language in which an animal, thing, force of nature, or idea is described as if it were human or given human characteristics

personification

hyperbole

metaphor

sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

a fourteen line poem, usually in iambic pentameter that follows a set rhyme scheme

sonnet

quatrain

rhyme scheme

extended metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

iamb

alliteration

end rhyme

metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A triolet:

a lengthy poem

a short Japanese poem about nature

a poem of 8 lines, with lines 1, 3, 7 and 2, 8 repeating

a rhyming poem meant to be humorous

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A quatrain:

a two line stanza

a short Japanese poem about nature

a five line stanza

a four line stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Rhyme scheme

two words rhyme

the pattern of how words in a poem rhyme, including approximate rhymes

must be exact rhymes

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

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