This is a review of 10th grade poetry terms and types.
A three-line poem with lines of seven, five, and seven syllables
A five-line poem with five syllables in the first and third lines and seven in the others
A poem of five to nine lines in which each line has five syllables
A seven-line poem in which lines of five syllables alternate with lines of seven syllables
To describe a setting
To convey character
To express feelings
To tell a story
Sight and hearing
Sight and touch
Hearing and touch
Hearing and smell
Sight, touch, hearing
Sight, hearing, taste
Hearing, touch, smell
Hearing, taste, sight
“Down on Lenox Avenue”
“Swaying to and fro”
“that poor piano”
“a deep song voice”
Consonance
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
A poem that tells a story using a character's thoughts
A long narrative poem about gods or heroes
A songlike narrative with stanzas and a refrain
A poem that expresses the feelings of a single speaker
Rhythm and rhyme.
Sensory language.
Narration
Ound devices.
No rhyme or set pattern of rhythm.
Three lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
Fourteen lines with formal patterns of rhyme and rhythm.
Ive lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables.
Metaphor
Personification
Simile using like
Simile using as
Often tells about a real person.
Always has a regular rhythm.
Never includes metaphors.
Expresses a speaker's feelings.
I, II, and III
II, III,and IV
I, II and IV
I, III, and IV
An ordered pattern of rhythm
A comparison using the word like or as
A description that appeals to one of the five senses
A comparison that gives human traits to a nonhuman thing
An ordered pattern of rhythm
A songlike narrative with short stanzas
The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words
A comparison that speaks of one thing in terms of another
Assonance
Alliteration
Consonance
Rhyme
Epic
Free verse
Consonance
Metaphor
A simile using like
Personification
A metaphor
A simile using as
A metaphor
A simile using like
Personification
A simile using as
“Here's a guy who must understand what the twist was all about.”
“Let's not forget the pool hall and the barbershop.”
“I must not slight the ragweed, / The true rose of the street.”
“My head hurts. / I am tired of remembering.”
They are cautionary tales.
They explain natural phenomena.
The heroes are usually tricksters.
They are extended narrative poems.
14 lines, regular rhythm and rhyme
5 lines, strict syllable count
19 lines, six stanzas
16 lines, no pattern of rhythm or rhyme
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