WorksheetsPoetry Terms
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
Assonance
Repetition
Theme
Words or phrases that appeal to any of the five senses or any combination of senses
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Tone
Meter
The repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas
Simile
Personification
Repetition
Meter
A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than"
Personification
Meter
Metaphor
Simile
Which word means lines that have a similar sound at the end of the line?
rhyme
simile
metaphor
rhyme scheme
Which word means images that are created in the mind while reading or looking at art?
imagery
simile
metaphor
rhyme
Which word means a comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as?
metaphor
acrostic
simile
imagery
Which word means a comparison of two unlike things that says one thing is another thing?
metaphor
simile
quatrain
line
Which word means poems do not rhyme and sound like normal speech?
free verse
simile
metaphor
acrostic
It was July, and the sun
toasted the emerald grass
until it smelled of warmth
and green and life.
Q. It was July, and my heart
soaked up the air warmth
until it sang of joy
and love and life.
How many LINES in the poem above?
This poem has 1 line
This poem has 2 lines
This poem has 4 lines
This poem has 8 lines
A pair of lines in poetry that usually rhyme or have the same meter
quatrain
couplet
stanza
refrain
seven snakes slithered silently
alliteration
onomatopoeia
rhyme
rhythm
giving non-human objects human qualities
personification
alliteration
simile
metaphor
The sun smiled on the angry clouds.
personification
alliteration
rhyme
onomatopoeia
cat, bat, hat, sat
rhyme
alliteration
personification
metaphor
My friend is a treasure.
metaphor
simile
alliteration
meter
She was as quiet as a mouse.
simile
metaphor
rhyme
alliteration
anything that represents something else
symbol
repetition
alliteration
meter
A form of poetry that originated in Japan and uses three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables.
haiku
concrete
ballad
narrative
What is personification?
The same beginning sound repeated
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
A word that is a sound
An exaggeration
