1. Poetry Terms

2. 1. Fred’s friends fried Fritos for Friday’s food.
Alliteration

3. 2. The goalkeeper was as solid as a rock.
Simile

4. 2. My mom is the rock of the family.
Metaphor

5. 3. free and easy
Assonance

6. 4. Art is a jealous mistress.
Personification

7. 5. Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
Assonance

8. 6. make the grade
Assonance

9. 7. Time is a thief.
Metaphor

10. 8. Mike’s microphone made much music
Alliteration

11. 9. I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.
` Thin Lizzy, “With Love”
Consonance

12. 9. I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless.
` Thin Lizzy, “With Love”
Consonance

13. 10. Your brother is a pig.
Metaphor

14. 11. You’re acting like a pig.
Simile

15. 12. The trees bowed to the ground.
Assonance, Personification

16. 13. And so, all the night- tide, I lie down by the side.
Assonance

17. Consonance, alliteration
14. He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.
- Robert Frost
Consonance, alliteration

18. 15. Life is a journey
Metaphor

19. Rhyme, Consonance, Assonance
16. Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile, Many styles, More powerful than gamma rays My grammar pays, like Carlos Santana plays
- Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, “Zealots”
Rhyme, Consonance, Assonance

20. Rhyme, Consonance, Assonance
16. Rap rejects my tape deck, ejects projectile Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile, Many styles, More powerful than gamma rays My grammar pays, like Carlos Santana plays
- Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, “Zealots”
Rhyme, Consonance, Assonance

21. Personification, rhyme, imagery
17. "Ah, William, we're weary of weather," said the sunflowers, shining with dew. "Our traveling habits have tired us. Can you give us a room with a view?"
Personification, rhyme, imagery

22. 18. my darling, my darling, my life and my bride
Assonance

23. 19.Fear knocked on the door
Personification

24. 20. Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand
Alliteration

25. 21. I saw a cat He wore a big hat!
Imagery and rhyme

26. 22. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;
Imagery, rhyme

27. 22. The package took forever to get here!
Hyperbole

28. Find the examples of assonance.
Slow things are beautiful: The closing of the day, The pause of the wave That curves downward to spray.
Elizabeth Coatsworth, "Swift Things are Beautiful"

29. Find the examples of assonance.
Slow things are beautiful: The closing of the day, The pause of the wave That curves downward to spray.
Elizabeth Coatsworth, "Swift Things are Beautiful"

30. There once was a big brown cat That liked to eat a lot of mice He got all round and fat Because they tasted so nice.
Rhyme – Note that it’s not in couplet form; it still rhymes, but in every other line. So how would you underline the rhyme in this poem?

31. Find examples of assonance
Night came on, and a full moon rose high over the trees into the sky, lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day.
Jack London, The Call of the Wild

32. Find examples of assonance
Night came on, and a full moon rose high over the trees into the sky, lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day.
Jack London, The Call of the Wild

33. Find examples of alliteration
Night came on, and a full moon rose high over the trees into the sky, lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day.
Jack London, The Call of the Wild

34. Find examples of alliteration
Night came on, and a full moon rose high over the trees into the sky, lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day.
Jack London, The Call of the Wild

35. Life is a precious possession, Death is a loss…
Metaphor, alliteration, and possibly consonance

36. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances.
Shakespeare, As You Like It
Metaphor

37. The End.
I hope you’re ready for your test!