Poetry Structure Review

Which of the following is not figurative language

• You're a couch potato

• The sky misses the sun at night

• She's as happy as a clam!

• The sky is blue

Which is an example of a simile?

• She is a ray of sunshine

• Quiet as a mouse

• The snow sparkles

• all apples are alike

Tonya was relaxing with a magazine when her father walked in, looking perturbed and sounding annoyed, too. What words give you clues to the meaning of perturbed?

• can you help me
• her father walked in 
• sounding annoyed, too
• relaxing with a magazine

A hyperbole is...

• An exaggeration

• A fake word

• An understatement

• A truth

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem?

Life gets faster every day,

No time to think, no time to play.

Hurry, chaos, lots of stress,

Tension leads to sleeplessness.

• ABAB

• ABCD

• AABB

• AAAA

A group of lines usually followed by a blank space.

• Stanza

• Meter

• Verse

• Rhythm

The conspicuous man wore a purple wig and large sunglasses.

• easily noticed
• beautiful
• sleeping

Tags

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

CCSS.L.6.6

When a poem repeats sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines, he or she is using 

• rhyme
• stanza 
• repetition 
• alliteration 

Written or spoken language in its ordinary form without metrical structure.

• poetry

• prose

• stanza

• lines

A comparison of two unlike things using "as" or "like"

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• alliteration

• simile