Poetry Literary Vocabulary - CKLA

What is a poem that has 19 lines with a specific rhyme scheme?

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Villanelle

• Limerick

What is a comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allegory

• Personification

What is a comparison that is not made directly?

• Implied metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What is the overall feeling or atmosphere created by a poem?

• Tone

• Theme

• Mood

• Style

What is a poem that tells a story and has a plot?

• Lyric poem

• Haiku

• Narrative poem

• Sonnet

What is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of art in a poem?

• Allusion

• Illusion

• Delusion

• Conclusion

What do you call a four-line stanza?

• Quatrain

• Couplet

• Sestet

• Octave

What is a recurring theme or idea in a poem?

• Motif

• Theme

• Symbol

• Tone

What is a type of figurative language that gives human qualities to non-human things?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Alliteration

What is the repetition of words at the start of a series of lines in a poem called?

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Epiphora