Poetry & Argumentative Text Vocabulary Quiz

Figurative language in which non-human things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

Two or more lines that end in rhyming syllables or words

 

• Internal Rhyme

• Nursery Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Beginning Rhyme

A rhyme within the same line of verse

• Internal Rhyme

• Nursery Rhyme

• End Rhyme

• Beginning Rhyme

An assertion or position on a topic or issue presented by an author

• Poetry

• argument

• Claim

• written work

The central or universal idea of a literary work that often relates to morals and/or values and speaks to the human experience/condition

• Prose

• Poetry

• Theme

• Main Idea

A comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as

• Metaphor

• Rhyme

• Hyperbole

• Simile

A distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics based on meter, lines, stanzas, and rhyme schemes such as a sonnet, blank verse, ballad, haiku, epic, lyric, etc.

 

• Prose

• Argumentative Text

• Poetic Form

• Myth

Literary works focused on the expression of feelings and ideas through a distinctive style that is often rhythmical and may have elements such as meter, rhyme, and stanzas

• Informational Text

• Argumentative Text

• Prose

• Poetry

A text in which the writer develops and defends a position or debates a topic using logic and persuasion

• Informational Text

• Argumentative Text

• Prose

• Poetry

The use of words that sound like what they mean; a poetic device to produce this effect

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Individualism

• Metaphor