Poetry Vocabulary
The author of a poem is called a.....
Poet
Words that have the same ending sound.
Rhyme
An extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
She is as busy as a bee.
The sky was painted with lovely streaks of pink and purple as the sun went down.
Sight
The pattern of rhymes within a poem is the...
Rhyme Scheme
Repetition of the same beginning sound.
Alliteration
Says that two different things are the same.
Metaphor
The lightning danced across the night sky.
Personification
The crowd cheered and clapped when their team got a touchdown!
Hearing
A group of lines in a poem separated by a space is a...
Stanza
Onomatopoeia
Gives human qualities to non-human things.
Personification
The classroom was a zoo.
Metaphor
As soon as I opened the fridge, I knew that something was rotten.
Smell
The speaker in a poem; can be the poet or a character created by the poet...
Voice or Speaker
Slippery seals sleep silently on the sandy seashore.
Alliteration
Compares two unlike things using "like" or "as".
Simile
This poetry test will be a piece of cake!
Idiom
The intense sourness of the lemon punched me in the mouth.
Taste
What is the rhyme scheme of the following:
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
ABAB
Which sound device is the following an example of:
Bang! Pop! Fizz! Pow! I love fireworks!Onomatopoeia
Phrases that do not mean exactly what they say.
Idiom
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
I could barely bend my numb fingers as I packed the snow into a snowball.
Touch/Feeling