Poetry Unit Summative

A simile

• compares 2 things without using like or as

• compares 2 things using like or as

• compares 2 things using like

A metaphor

• compares 2 things without using like or as

• compares 2 things using like or as

• compares 2 things using just like

The characteristics of poetry are:

• A story written about someone else’s life

• Always a make believe story

• Pieces of writing having rhythm and often rhyme, language that shows more imagination and deep feeling that ordinary speech, and language that helps the reader imagine the way things look, smell, taste, or feel

A narrative poem

• tells a story

• is about expressing a feeling

• has an ABCB rhyming pattern

Onomatopoeia is

• Comparisons using like or as

• What the whole poem is about

• Sound words

A (a)   is a five-lined poem, with a rhyme scheme of AABBA, that is meant to be funny and full of nonsense.

• Quatrain

• Haiku

• Limerick

Alliteration is

• Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Repeated vowel sounds

• Giving human qualities to ideas and things

Hyperbole is

• A comparison using like or as

• An exaggeration

• Giving human qualities to ideas and things

A (a)   is an ancient Japanese form of poetry with no rhyme, often deals with nature, and has three lines.

• Acrostic

• Haiku

• Limerick

An example of a hyperbole is

• He was so hungry he ate a house

• The wind pounded on the house

• The waves crashed on the shore