Poetry Terms

OnomatopoeiaCorrect:

A. Snap, Crackle, Pop best defines examples of Onomatopoeia. Words that visually imitate the sound they make.

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EXAMPLE of a poem using Onomatopoeia

Crack an EggCrack an egg.Stir the butter.Break the yolk.Make it flutter.Stoke the heat.Hear it sizzle.Shake the salt,just a drizzle.Flip it over,just like that.Press it down.Squeeze it flat.Pop the toast.Spread jam thin.Say the word.Breakfast's in .

by Denise Rodgers

Wrong:C: Red, White, and Blue are simple adjectives and do not make sound. They are visual words which in poetry could be used to describe imagery, but NOT Onomatopoeia.WRONGD. These words are NOT examples of Onomatopoeia.

They were used in old-fashioned textbooks to teach small children how to read. AlliterationAccording to what you know, which of the following best defines the term listed above?

Choose the best answer!A. She walks in beauty like the nightB. She sells seashells by the seashoreC. Shes a ladyD. She is like a moonlight sky

C. Is Wrong, Try Again. The picture is a hint.

D. Nope, Sorry.

A. I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory even stopper death Professor Snape in Harry Potter by JK Rowling

B. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both- Robert Frost

C. Roses are red

D. Four Score and Seven Years Ago.

D. Abe Lincoln would be proud if you know the real, Address, of this line. It is not a Haiku.

HyperboleAccording to what you know, which of the following best defines or demonstrates the term listed above?

A: True B: False

Andrew Marvells lines here in To His Coy Mistress:

An hundred years should go to praiseThine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;Two hundred to adore each breast;But thirty thousand to the rest

A. A scientific term used to describe massB. A poem such as a sonnet or an odeC. An angle of an obtuse triangleD. An appendage found on the wing of a bird

A. The ability for words in a poem to paint a picture in the readers mind.

B. The freedom of the poet to misuse spelling and grammar within a poem

C. The seemingly natural word pattern of similar sounds within a poem

D. Two lines with the same scheme

C. Yes, you are correct!When words have similar sounds and spelling in poetry, such as, might, night, and kite Rhyming has occurred.

D. Boing, boing, bong. Wrong. This is a brief definition of the poetic term known as a couplet.