Poetry Elements

Front

What is the narrator of a poem called?

Back

Speaker

Front

Rhyme

Back

The repetition of an ending sound.

Front

Alliteration

Back

The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

Front

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"? Options: Simile, Metaphor, Alliteration, Hyperbole

Back

Simile

Front

What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another? Options: Hyperbole, Alliteration, Metaphor, Simile

Back

Metaphor

Front

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life

Back

Alliteration

Front

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
Options: Refrain, Rhyme, Meter, Simile

Back

Rhyme

Front

What structure is poetry written in? Options: Sentences & paragraphs, Sentences & stanzas, Lines & paragraphs, Lines & stanzas

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Lines & stanzas

Front

A sentence, phrase, or word arranged into a single row.

Back

line

Front

A group of lines in a poem separated with a blank line space.

Back

stanza