1. Poetry Terms Quiz Prep

2. My love is like a red rose….

3. Simile: A comparison using like or as

4. He drowned in a sea of grief.

5. Metaphor: A direct comparison between two unlike things

6. Under a green sea of grass/ I saw him drowning

7. Imagery: Words or figurative language that create a picture

8. I’m so lonely I could die.

9. Hyperbole: An extreme exaggeration

10. Adjectives: Serious, somber, light, realaxed

11. Mood: The feeling a reader is supposed to get from a poem

12. She sells sea shells by the sea shore

13. Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds

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

15. Allusion: To make reference to a well known person.

16. The tree branches reached out violently for me as I ran

17. Personification: Giving human attributes/qualities to non human things.

18. Group of lines in a poem

19. Stanza

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

21. Tone

23. Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds.

24. Come to believe that you better not leave.

25. Oxymoron: Putting together two contradictorily ideas.

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

27. Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate sound.

28. BAM, THWAP, MOO, AAAAAAH.

29. Speaker: Voice of the poem.

30. The Chorus speaks the prologue in ‘Romeo and Juliet’. In a love poem the speaker is a lover speaking to their love.

31. Symbol: Concrete object represents abstract concepts.

33. Theme: The main idea of a poem or story.

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