Poetry Terms
Rhythm
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
Onamatopoeia
"As the bird chirps, the frog croaks"is an example of..
Simile / imagery
"Blood seeped out of the wound like red teardrops." Is an example of .. (can have 2 answers)
End rhyme
"But he grew old This knight so bold"is an example of
Idiom
"His car cost him an arm and a leg." Is an example of ..
Hyperbole
"I could stare into your eyes as a thousand years come and go" is an example of ...
Simile
"I lost my freedom for free room and board like a monkey in the zoo." Is an example of ..
Alliteration
"Sing me no sad song cause my heart's been broken." Is an example of ...
Idiom
"The will be the day pigs fly." Is an example of ..
Metaphor
"This test will be a piece of cake." Is an example of
Alliteration
"children sleep softly in their bedroom bunks😴" is an example of..
metaphor
"life is a bowl of cherries" is an example of ..
personification
"the moon is faithful, although blind"🌑 is an example of..
Quatrain
A four line poem
Free verse
A poem that requies no rhyme or rhythm
Ballad
A poem which tells a story
What is the correct way to write the title of a poem ?
In quotation marks and every important word capitalized
Rhyme
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
Denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
rhyme scheme
This is determining the rhyme pattern of a rhyming poem
Tone
This is the authors feelings when he writes a piece of literature
Mood
This is the readers feelings when they read a piece of literature
Internal rhyme
This is when the same sound is repeated in the same line of poetry
Personification
This is when you give human characteristics to non-human things
Stanza
a division in a poem named for the number of lines it contain
Free verse
a form of poetry which is not written in any special form and requires no rhyme or rhythm, but reads like a story
Hyperbole
exaggeration