unit 7

Question 1

: repetition of the initial consonants of words.

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Free Verse:

Question 3

excessive exaggeration to make a point

Answer 3

Hyperbole:

Question 4

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

Answer 4

imagery

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Metaphor:

Question 6

: a word that makes the sound of the action it describes

Answer 6

Onomatopoeia

Question 7

: a comparison that gives human qualities to inanimate objects

Answer 7

Personification

Question 8

the pattern of the end rhymes in a poem

Answer 8

Rhyme scheme:

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Simile

Question 10

: the narrator of a poem

Answer 10

Speaker

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Stanza

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Symbol