Poetry Quiz Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| repeated sounds at the ends of lines | rhymes |
| regular rhythm | meter |
| poems may be written in ____________ and _____________ | rhymes meter |
| add a musical quality to poetry | sound devices |
| the beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | rhythm |
| using elements of language more than once | repetition |
| using words that imitate sounds | onomatopoeia |
| repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words | alliteration |
| writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally | figurative language |
| describes one thing as if it were something else | metaphor |
| use like or as to compare two unlike things | simile |
| pool, rule, fool | rhyme |
| the cat sat on the mat | rhythm |
| crash, bang, splat | onomatopoeia |
| lovely lonely nights | alliteration |
| the snow was a white blanket over the town | metaphor |
| she is as slow as a turtle | simile |
| gving human qualities to something that is nonhuman | personification |
| writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses | sensory language |
| a group of lines that form one of the sections of a poem | stanza |
| something that stands for or suggests something else | symbol |
| an exaggeration or an overstatement | hyperbole |
| when a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is | understatement |
| an expressions that means something other than the literal meaning of its words | idiom |
| the attitude it expresses toward the subject | tone |
| the ocean crashed angrily during the storm | personification |
| poets use word images to help the reader experience a poem | sensory language |
| I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow | hyperbole |
| it's a little cool today | understatement |
| it's raining cats and dogs | idiom |
| poetry that tells a story in verse | narrative |
| plot and characters | narrative poetry |
| poetry expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single person | lyric |
| poetry in highly musical verse | lyric |
| shaped to look like their subjects | concrete poems |
| threeline Japanese poem | haiku |
| 5-7-5 syllable poem | haiku |
| humorous, rhyming, five-line poem | limerick |
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AnneD
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