Poetic Terms

___________ is words that focus on the five senses.

• imagery

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

Which is the following an example of:

"I'm as big as the earth."

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

The image shows examples of...

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

• personification

• alliteration

Why is this an example of assonance?

• It's the repetition of vowels in the middle of words.

• It's the repeating of color in the middle of words.

Why is this poem an ODE?

• It's a lyrical poem meant to address a specific subject

• It's a lyrical poem meant to address many subjects.

• It's another kind of haiku.

"I walked as lonely as a cloud."

What is the above an example of?

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

A stanza is to poetry what a ________________ is to prose.

• hyperbole

• paragraph

• ode

• assonance

"Neil kneels near the new napkins."

The above is an example of....

• alliteration

• personification

• imagery

• stanza

A ________________ is a fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme.

• ode

• haiku

• sonnet

• metaphor

Read the following to determine what kind of poem it is"

A world of dew,

And within every dewdrop

A world of struggle.

• metaphor

• personification

• haiku

• sonnet