Poetry Terms
What poem sound feature is used below?
He works by day
He gave up play
What is end rhyme?
What are slant rhymes?
What are words that almost rhyme
Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers is an example of
What is alliteration?
“I read that book a thousand times!”
What is a hyperbole?
The use of extreme exaggeration
What is a hyperbole?
Buzz!
What is onomatopoeia?
Rhyme at the end of two or more lines in a poem
What is end rhyme
Words or phrases that appeal to the senses are...
What is imagery?
That donut is the size of a tire.
What is hyperbole?
Two words next to each other with opposite meaning.
Stupid smart
Skinny fat
Oxymoron
Wendy walked while talking.
What is alliteration?
What do you call wo lines that end in rhymes?
He works by day
He gave up play
Rhyming Couplet
Yellow like the sun
What is simile?
A comparison using like or as.
What is simile?
The author of the poem
Who is a poet?
Splat!
What is onomatopoeia?
What is the rhyming scheme of the poem below:
Hearts shattered,
Broken pieces everywhere
How can true love compare
Who will pick up the shattered dreams?
How can love heal the battered?
ABBCA
How many stanzas are in the poem below?
If you can picture an igloo
I can do too
Let's go to the zoo
Be the kangaroo
Two rhyming couplets
What is a metaphor
What is comparing without using "as" or "like"
What do you call the way words look on the page?
What is the form?
She said it again, and again, and again.
What is repetition?
What rhyming scheme is used here?
He worked by day
and toiled at night
He gave up play
and much delight
Dry books he read,
Night after night
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The engine called to me with a raspy voice.
What is personification?
A figure of speech that gives human qualities to something that is nonhuman.
What is personification?
A group of lines arranged together in a poem
What is a stanza?