Poetry

What is a form of writing that expresses ideas and feelings through the sound and rhythm of words?

• simile

• lines

• hyperbole

• poem

What is a word or phrase that means something other than what is actually being said?

• refrain

• idiom

• alliteration

• simile

What is a comparison of unlike things using like or as?

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• simile

• refrain

What is it called when two or more words beginning with the same initial sound in closely connected words?

• metaphor

• acrostic

• Haiku

• alliteration

What is a phrase, line or group of line that is repeated throughout a poem called?

• refrain

• idiom

• poem

• simile

What is an exaggeration or stretching of the truth?

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• simile

what is the individual "sentences" of a poem

• verse

• rhyme

• lines

• meter

Which word definition is the pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem?

• rhythm

• lines

• stanza

• meter

What are words that make sounds such as "clap" or "moo"?

• verse

• simile

• idion

• onomatopeia

What is a Japanese poem composed of three lines of five, seven, five syllables, usually about nature?

• Haiku

• Rhyme

• Acrostic

• Free verse