POETRY TERMS

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

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

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

3. free and easy
• Assonance

4. Art is a jealous mistress.
• Personification

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

6. make the grade
• Assonance

7. Time is a thief.
• Metaphor

8. Mike’s microphone made much music
• Alliteration

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

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

10. Your brother is a pig.
• Metaphor

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

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

13. And so, all the nighttide, I lie down by the side.
• Assonance

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

15. Life is a journey
• Metaphor

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

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

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

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

19.Fear knocked on the door
• Personification

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

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

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

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

• 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"

• 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"

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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