1. When does NONSENSE make sense? Review for Quiz
English 7
Unit 5-Poetry

2. humorous poetry written to make you laugh
poets will often use exaggeration

3. hyperbole extreme exaggeration used for comic effect Example
“I am so hungry I could eat a horse.”

4. sound device Examples: Poems are musical and memorable Rhyme
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Poems are musical and memorable

5. rhyme the use of repetition of the sounds at the end of words Example
baloney and macaroni

6. omomatopoeia the use of words that sound like their meanings Example
swish

7. alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Example
twenty tame tigers

8. rhythm
in poetry a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

9. You may use your book for comprehension questions
There are interpretations questions! Read and think!
No book for figurative language definitions!