Unit ?

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Alliteration: repetition of the initial consonants of words.

Question 2

Free Verse:

Answer 2

Free Verse: a poem without predictable rhyme, rhythm, or length of line or stanza.

Question 3

Hyperbole:

Answer 3

Hyperbole: excessive exaggeration to make a point

Question 4

Imagery:

Answer 4

Imagery: the use of vivid words that appeal to the reader’s senses of sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch

Question 5

Onomatopoeia:

Answer 5

a word that makes the sound of the action it describes

Question 6

Metaphor:

Answer 6

: a comparison of two dissimilar things that implies some sort of equality between the things

Question 7

Personification

Answer 7

: a comparison that gives human qualities to inanimate objects

Question 8

Rhyme scheme

Answer 8

the pattern of the end rhymes in a poem

Question 9

Speaker:

Answer 9

the narrator of a poem

Question 10

Stanza:

Answer 10

a group of lines of poetry, usually similar in length and pattern

Question 11

Symbol

Answer 11

: something in a poem that stands for something larger than itself

Question 12

Simile

Answer 12

: a comparison of two dissimilar things that uses “like” or “as”