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