Poetry Vocabulary

Poetry Vocabulary

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Multiple Choice

When a word or phrase is used more than once for emphasis

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Rhyme Scheme

• Topic

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The pattern of rhyme in a poem

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Rhyme Scheme

• Simile

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The overall message or life lesson of a poem

• Personification

• Topic

• Theme

• Stanza

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The main subject of the poem

• Theme

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Topic

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Repetition of beginning sounds of words

• Repetition

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

• Alliteration

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Giving human qualities to a non-human animal, object, or idea

• Stanza

• Personification

• Imagery

• Line

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Descriptive words that create a picture in the reader's mind

• Imagery

• Rhythm

• Metaphor

• Extended Metaphor

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The beat of a poem

• Stanza

• Line

• Rhythm

• Topic

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An exaggeration for effect

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

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A word that imitates the sound it represents

• Onomatopoeia

• Imagery

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

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A row of words in a poem

• Stanza

• Rhythm

• Line

• Topic

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A metaphor that carries the comparison through several lines or throughout an entire poem

• Repetition

• Simile

• Extended Metaphor

• Metaphor

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A group of lines in a poem

• Stanza

• Line

• Group

• Theme

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A comparison between two unlike things using like or as

• Extended Metaphor

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

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A comparison between two unlike things NOT using like or as; stating that something IS something else

• Hyperbole

• Topic

• Metaphor

• Simile

Match

Match the following

• My arms are weapons

• One line of poetry

• Attitude of a poem

• No punctuation before next line

• A story poem/song

metaphor

verse

tone

enjambment

ballad

• metaphor

• verse

• tone

• enjambment

• ballad