Poetry Year 9 mid

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

A comparison using ‘like’, ‘as… as’ or ‘than’

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

Where the start of a sentence or clause is repeated.

e.g. I will listen in lessons.

I will know what I’m doing.

I will feel better about myself as a result.

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

Exaggeration / over statement.

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

A comparison where you say one thing is or was something else.

Question 5

Stanza

Answer 5

The term we use for paragraphs in poems.

Question 6

Sonnet

Answer 6

A type of poem that people used to write (famous people like shakespeare). It has 14 lines, is in iambic pentameter, has a volta (turning point) usually around line 9.

Question 7

Ballad

Answer 7

A poem that tells a story. It’s stanzas are usually made up of four lines. 4 line stanzas are called quatrains.

Question 8

Free verse

Answer 8

Unstructured poem. It doesn’t have a clear rhyme scheme or meter.

Question 9

Meter

Answer 9

This is what we call rhythm when we are talking about poems.

Question 10

Rhyme scheme

Answer 10

The pattern of rhymes in a poem. This is to do with the end of each line and which line it rhymes with.

Question 11

Alliteration

Answer 11

When subsequent words (words in a row) start with the same letter or sound.