Poetry TermsQuiz Prep

• My love is like a red rose….

Simile: A comparison using like or as

• He drowned in a sea of grief.

Metaphor: A direct comparison between two

unlike things

• Under a green sea of grass/ I saw him drowning

Imagery: Words or figurative language that

create a picture

• I’m so lonely I could die.

Hyperbole: An extreme exaggeration

• Adjectives: Serious, somber, light, realaxed

Mood: The feeling a reader is supposed to get

from a poem

• She sells sea shells by the sea shore

Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds

• When you think Tim McGraw, I hope you think my favorite song…

Allusion: To make reference to a well known

person.

• The tree branches reached out violently for me as I ran

Personification: Giving human attributes/qualities to

non human things.

• Group of lines in a poem

Stanza

• The attitude of the poet towards to subject/poem: bitter, critical, sarcastic, worshiping, loving.

Tone

Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds.

• Come to believe that you better not leave.

Oxymoron: Putting together two contradictorily

ideas.

• Jumbo shrimp, cold fire, sick health, educated ignorance.

Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate sound.

• BAM, THWAP, MOO, AAAAAAH.

Speaker: Voice of the poem.

• The Chorus speaks the prologue in ‘Romeo and Juliet’.• In a love poem the speaker is a lover

speaking to their love.

Symbol: Concrete object represents abstract

concepts.

Theme: The main idea of a poem or story.

The theme of ‘Harry Potter’ by JK Rowling is that with teamwork, perseverance and sacrifice, good will always triumph over evil.