Poetic Elements

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author
• Speaker
• Narrator
• Main character

Define "rhyme."

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
• The repetition of a letter.
• The repetition of an ending sound.

What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.
• Words that sound alike.
• An exaggeration.
• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Rhyme

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain
• Rhyme
• Meter
• Simile

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

A sentence, phrase, or word arranged into a single row.

• line
• stanza
• rhythm
• anonymous

A group of lines in a poem separated with a blank line space.

• metaphor
• simile
• line
• stanza