Poetry Terms
The voice that relates the story or idea of the poem.
What is speaker?
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
A simile uses like or as and a metaphor does not.
Jack and Jill
went up the hill
What is rhyme?
I found a book of poems.
I brought the book to school.
And every time I looked at it.
I giggled like a fool.
What is ABCB?
Repetition of beginning sounds.
What is alliteration?
Sending someone roses to show that you love them.
What is symbolism?
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
What is rhythm pattern?
How dry I am, how wet I’ll be,
If I don’t find the bathroom key.
I found the key, but it’s too late.
I just missed my bathroom date
What is AABB?
The juicy steak called my name.
What is personification?
The old man walked
down the street
down the street
down the street
What is repetition?
Bee, be, B,
I’d rather climb a tree,
than learn to spell, the same old word,
not just one way, but three
What is AABA?
When words at the end of lines have the same end sound.
What is rhyme?
Her eyes were shining diamonds.
What is a metaphor?
Bang! He slammed his locker shut.
What is onomatopoeia?
Have you ever heard the story
Of Mrs. J. J. Brown?
How she became a legend
When the ship was going down?
What is ABCB?
A poem with three lines and 5, 7, and 5 syllables in each line.
What is a haiku?
Life is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get
What is analogy?
When it comes to spending money, he is a total Scrooge.
(Not a metaphor)
What is Allusion?
My baby brother is so small,
He hasn’t even learned to crawl.
He’s only been around a week,
And all he seems to do is bawl
and wiggle, sleep…and leak.
What is AABAB?