Poetry Techniques

Alternate and couplet are types of rhyme

• True

• False

What is the correct spelling of this technique....?

• Onomatopeoia

• Onomatopeia

• Onomatopoeia

What is this an example of?

The sea softly sang its lullaby

• Oxymoron

• Sibilance

• Synaesthesia

What is this an example of?

They'll never find you in this salty dark.

• Sibilance

• Oxymoron

• Synaesthesia

What is this an example of?

• Sibilance

• Oxymoron

• Synaesthesia

What form of poem has no regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme?

What term best describes this technique?

running children in a nightmare heat

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

What term best describes this technique?

The merry bells ring

To welcome the Spring

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

Rhyme scheme is...

• The pattern of rhymes in a poem.

• I have no idea.

• Like rythmn

• When two words sound similar.

Answer explanation

The pattern the rhyme in a poem follows.

The people along the sand

All turn and look one way

They turn their back on the land

They look at the sea all day

sand and land rhyme (rhyme a)

way and day rhyme (rhyme b)

so the pattern is abab

What is alliteration?

• Repeating vowel at start of words.

• Repeating letters

• Repeating consonant sound at the beginning of words.

• Repeating consonant sound at the end of words