POETRY TERMS
Directions: Match the term to its description or example.
Poetry Term
Description
__1. stanza
a. A writer describes the miraculous colors found in a sunset.
__2. auditory
imagery
b. Her hair was like gravy, running brown off her head and clumping up on her shoulders.
__3. paradox
c. The branch scratched its angry claws into the dirt.
__4. sonnet
d. A writer describes the loud, blaring horn from a transfer truck.
__5. elegy
e.
__6. personification
f. . “If you prick us, do we not bleed, if you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
(Shylock in William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice)
__7. visual imagery
g. a 14-line lyric poem
__8. simile
h. “For the moon never beams
without bringing me dreams…”
__9. dramatic irony
i. A writer describes the soft texture of a kittens’s fur.
__10. tactile
imagery
j. The Odyssey
__11.metaphor
k. A poem that laments the death of a person, or one that is simply sad and thoughtful
__12. rhetorical
question
l. The implied attitude of the writer toward the subject and caracters
__13. symbol
m. A light humorous poem of five lines with the rhyme scheme of aabba
__14. Tone
n. “Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells…”
__15. subject
o. Yesterday it snowed, (5)
And the wind did spritely blow, (7)
Keeping me inside. (5)
__16. epic
p. The car of two robbers is stolen while they are looting money from a bank.
__17. limerick
q. "You'll never put a better bit of butter on your knife."
__18. end rhyme
r. Life is a beach.
__19. haiku
s. *Everyone is completely unique, just like everyone else.
*What would happen if an immovable object was struck by an unstoppable
force?
*The light darkened our mood.
__20. refrain
t. a verse or section of a poem
__21. hyperbole
u. the topic of the poem, or what we believe the poem is about
__22. alliteration
v. whoosh, click, crackle, and boom
__23. onomatopoeia
w. In Oedipus the King, the reader knows that Oedipus himself is the murderer that he is seeking;
Oedipus, Creon and Jocasta do not.
__24. situational
irony
x. * I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
* Her brain is the size of a pea
* He is older than the hills.
__25. repetition
y. repeated lines such as a chorus in a song