Poetry Term Review

What is the correct term for the following definition? The use of words that imitate sounds: buzz, screech, hiss, bang, pow, boom, etc.

• Assonance

• Metaphor

• Rhyme Scheme

• Onomatopoeia

What is the correct term for the following definition?

This is language that appeals to the senses; it helps us see, smell, and feel the scene.

• Imagery

• Allusion

• Stanza

• Onomatopoeia

Which type of poetry avoids the use of regular rhyme, rhythm, meter, or division into stanzas

• Free Verse

• Blank Verse

• Ballad

• Elegy

A comparison without using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• onomatopoeia

A comparison using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Repetition of sounds at the end of words

• rhyme

• rhythm

• alliteration

• assonance

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• rhythm

• meter

• stanza

• pattern

Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.

• figurative language

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Elements such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia - gives poetry a musical quality

• music

• figurative language

• sound devices

• sensory details