Poetry Review

Rhythm is the repeating patterns of sounds

• False

• True

What is a meter?

• the pattern of accents and beats in a poem

• a row of words in a poem

• a measuring device

Words with a similar ending sound are called...

• Equal

• Rhythm

• Repeated

• Rhyme

A _______ in a poem is like a sentence in a paragraph.  

• stanza
• line
• rhyme 
• figurative language

The _________ are like paragraphs in a poem. 

• stanzas
• lines
• rhyme scheme
• figurative language

All are found in poetry except...

• rhyme scheme
• rhythm
• stanza
• paragraphs

All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

What are the red letters an example of?

The people along the sand (A)

All turn and look one way. (B)

They turn their back on the land. (A)

They look at the sea all day. (B)

As long as it takes to pass (C)

A ship keeps raising its hull; (C)

The wetter ground like glass (D)

Reflects a standing gull. (D)

• Rhythm

• Rhyme

• Rhyme scheme

• Alliteration

Words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions to which they refer.

• rhyme
• onomatopoeia
• metaphor
• simile

To describe by comparing two things using “like” or “as”.

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• alliteration