Elements of Poetry

Elements of Poetry

Review the elements of poetry

Multiple Choice

What is alliteration?

• Sound words

• The pattern of

  rhymes

• The repetition of

  the beginning

  consonant sounds in

  words

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Imagery create a __ in the reader's mind.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• They fought like cats and dogs.

• He is as strong as an ox.

• The snow is a white blanket

• I am happy.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of meter?

• A rhythmic pattern

  in poetry that is

  usually repeated.

• A comparison of

  two unlike things

  using like or as

• The attitude or

  mood the author

  creates

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Onomatopoeia are __ words.

Multiple Select

Select two examples of personification.

• The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

• The dog barked loudly at the cat.

• It was raining cats and dogs during the game.

• My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

Multiple Choice

What is repetition?

• To repeat sounds,

  words, phrases, or

  whole lines in a poem

• Words that mean the same thing

• The musical quality of a poem

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Rhyme is words that __ in the same sound.

Multiple Choice

What is rhyme scheme?

• 2 words that rhyme

• when no words rhyme

• all words rhym

• the patterns of rhymes

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Rhythm is the __ quality of a poem.

Multiple Select

Select 2 examples of simile.

• Her long hair was a flowing golden river.

• This house is as clean as a whistle.

• Don't just sit there like a bump on a log.

• The calm lake was a mirror.

Multiple Choice

What is a stanza?

• The pattern of

  rhymes

• Sound words

• A division in a poem

  named for the

  number of lines it

  contains

Multiple Choice

What is theme?

• A division in a poem

  named for the

  number of lines it

  contains

• The message about life that the poem conveys

• A deliberate

  exaggeration

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__ is the attitude or mood the author creates.

Multiple Choice

What is hyperbole?

• Giving things that

  are not human, the

  personalities or

  actions of humans

• Creates a picture in

  the reader’s mind

• A deliberate

  exaggeration