Poetry Vocabulary Quiz

Words that have the same beginning SOUND

• Rhyme
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia

The perspective (how a person feels about something) from which the events of the poem are told. Who is telling the story or poem; the speaker

• Stanza
• Imagery
• Free Verse
• Point of View

Comparing two unlike things using the words “like” or “as”

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Alliteration

Words that use expressions with a meaning that is different form the literal meaning

• Sensory Language
• Imagery
• Internal Rhyme
• Figurative Language

Rhyming words within a line of poetry

• Internal Rhyme
• Rhyme Scheme
• Rhythm
• Rhyme

Words that sound like what they mean

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Metaphor

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• Figurative Language
• Imagery
• Sensory Language
• Rhythm

A group of lines or a paragraph in a poem

• Line
• Stanza
• Rhythm
• Internal Rhyme

A poem that has no rhyme or form

• Stanza
• Poetry
• Internal Rhyme
• Free Verse

A sentence in a poem

• Line
• Stanza
• Imagery
• Rhythm