Poetry Terms

What is a stanza?

• It's like a paragraph in a poem

• It's a set of lines that all rhyme

• It is another word for poem

• It is a type of figurative language

What is it called when a series of words all start with the same letter?

• Anaphora

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Consonance

What is it called when words share the same letters in the middle?

• Epistrophe

• Repetition

• Rhyme

• Consonance

What is it called when a series of phrases or lines start with the same word?

• Rhythm

• Anaphora

• Juxtaposition

• Alliteration

What is the emotion of the poem called?

• Sensory Detail

• Tone

• Purpose

• Diction

What is the repetition of sounds at the end of words called?

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Rhyme

What is it called when two words have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly?

• Slant rhyme

• Obscure rhyme

• Partial rhyme

• Alliteration

This is a reference to a commonly known event, story, or person. It is not a direct mention!

• Metaphor

• Setting

• Allusion

• Foreshadow

This is the act of putting two (or more) things together. This can be used for comparison, or for contrast.

• Squishing

• Slant Rhyme

• Juxtaposition

• Antithesis

This is a direct opposite, a sharp contrast in order to highlight differences.

• Juxtaposition

• Antithesis

• Bitter Tone

• Slant Rhyme