Appreciating poetry terms

A poem has a

• narrator

• talker

• speaker

Where a line ends is called...

• stanza

• rhyme

• line break

• form

The musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables is....

• rhythm

• alliteration

• rhyme

• meter

Techniques used to give poetry a musical quality are...

• free verse poems

• sensory details

• traditional poems

• sound devices

Groups of lines in poetry are called...

• stanzas

• paragraphs

• forms

• lines

The use of words whose sounds echo their meanings..

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

An overstatement used to emphasize a point or create humor.

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

A comparison between two unlike things using like or as..

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

A verse or phrase that is repeated throughout a poem.

• line

• refrain

• form

• verse