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WorksheetsPoetic terms and figurative language Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
giving human qualities to non-human things like animals, objects, or ideas. Example - "The motor coughed and wheezed."
hyperbole/hipérbole (noun)
simile/símil (noun)
onomatopoeia/onomatopeya (noun)
personification/personificación (noun)
Rhyme scheme
two words rhyme
the pattern of how words in a poem rhyme, including approximate rhymes
must be exact rhymes
Stanza:
The title of the poem
The subject of the poem
A group of lines in a poem
How many lines there are in the poem
Repetition:
A word is repeated in a line/stanza
The first letter of a word is repeated
A vowel sound in the middle of words is repeated
The ends of multiple words have the same sound
Assonance:
A vowel sound is repeated
A consonant sound is repeated
The initial sound of a word is repeated
A word is repeated in a line/stanza
A quatrain:
a two line stanza
a short Japanese poem about nature
a five line stanza
a four line stanza
Holophrasis is
the use of religious imagery
a one word sentence
the use of sound words that echo
the repetition of O sounds
A sonnet is
a poem about the sun
poetry of filial love
a 14 line poem
a seven line poem
Enjambment is...
the use of internal rhyme
A clumsy rhyme scheme
The use of repetition
When a line of poetry has no punctuation at the end
