Poetry Terms and Figurative Language

A comparison between two objects, as if one object exists as the other.

• personification

• metaphor

• dialect

• free verse

Repetition at the beginning of a phrase.

• simile

• anaphora

• hyperbole

• didactic

When the speaker is giving advice to the listener in a poem.

• onomatopoeia

• anaphora

• advice

• didactic

Why do poets use dialect?

• To make the poem funny

• To make the poem rhyme

• To make the poem sound like natural speech

• To give the poem a beat

What poetry device is used in this line?

'I'se been a-climbin' on,

• dialect

• iamb

• personification

• rhyme

What is a stanza that contains four lines?

• repetition

• couplet

• tritrain

• quatrain

Two lines that rhyme.

• meter

• didactic

• simile

• couplet

Compares two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Compares two unlike things without using like or as; says one thing is another

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Describes non-human things as if they are human

• personification

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole