Poetry Terms Figurative Language

The leaves danced across the lawn.

What is this an example of?

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

• metaphor

Which of the following includes an example of personification?

• The dog ran swiftly across the park.

• The mosquito buzzed around my ear.

• It took forever to finish my test.

• The clouds marched across the sky.

In poetry, this is like a sentence.

• stanza

• idiom

• line

• simile

In a poem, what is a group of lines that are together like a paragraph?

• line

• stanza

• theme

• tone

What word means the use of extreme exaggeration?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

In poetry, what is the pattern of end rhymes?

• rhyme

• repetition

• rhythm/meter

• rhyme scheme

What is the imaginary voice used by the writer called?

• rhythm/meter

• hyperbole

• speaker

• tone

What is it called when the author repeats words or phrases in order to emphasize a point?

• imagery

• rhythm/meter

• repetition

• alliteration

What is the repetition of ending syllable sounds?

• alliteration

• repetition

• rhyme

• rhythm/meter

What is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that give the poem a beat?

• rhythm/meter

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• repetition