When does NONSENSE make sense? Review for Quiz English 7 Unit 5-Poetry
humorous poetry written to make you laugh poets will often use exaggeration
hyperbole extreme exaggeration used for comic effect Example “I am so hungry I could eat a horse.”
sound device Examples: Poems are musical and memorable Rhyme Repetition Onomatopoeia Alliteration Poems are musical and memorable
rhyme the use of repetition of the sounds at the end of words Example baloney and macaroni
omomatopoeia the use of words that sound like their meanings Example swish
alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words Example twenty tame tigers
rhythm in poetry a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
You may use your book for comprehension questions There are interpretations questions! Read and think! No book for figurative language definitions!