Poetry Terms

Question 1

A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

Answer 1

Rhyme scheme

Question 2

Onomantopoeia

Answer 2

Use of words that imitate sounds

Question 3

Use more than once of any element of language a sound word, phrase ,clause or sentence

Answer 3

Repetition

Question 4

The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

Answer 4

Alliteration

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

The Repeating of vowel sounds

Question 6

A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between unlike ideas

Answer 6

Simile

Question 7

A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else

Answer 7

Metaphor

Question 8

Over exaggeration of something

Answer 8

Hyperbole

Question 9

Personification

Answer 9

A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.

Question 10

Central message in a literacy work

Answer 10

Theme

Question 11

Stanza

Answer 11

A group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by a space