Basic conventions of poetry

This figure of speech gives human qualities to non-living things.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

Identify the rhyme scheme pattern:

'The one who brought me down to earth,

And held me every day.

The one who gracefully gave me birth.

And said, I love you in every way.'

(The One- by Chrystal R. Adams)

• abab

• abba

• aaa

• abaa

What is a stanza in poetry?

• A type of rhyme scheme

• A unit of lines grouped together

• A type of poetic form

• A line in the poem

A quatrain is a poem with _ lines

• 4

• 10

• 5

• 2

True or False

'His heart is a stone' is an example of alliteration.

• True

• False

Similes, metaphors, and personification are examples of...

Assonance is...

• The repetition of vowel sounds

• The repetition of consonant sounds

• Words that imitate and reproduce real-life sounds

• None of the below.

The repetition of similar sounds at the end of a line.

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Alliteration

The central idea a poem would like to convey is called...