Poetry Terms

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1. What term best applies to this line: "The wind howled about my window that February night"? simile personification metaphor consonance

2. What term would you choose when coming across this line: "The soft sound of the sea soothed my troubled soul"? assonance alliteration consonance onomatopoeia

3. When two words sound the same, especially at the end of each line, as in "He shall no longer be/a visitor to the sea", what do we call this term? personification alliteration rhyme consonance

4. "This summer day is like sweet music" is an example of what term? onomatopoeia metaphor simile personification

5. "Her love for him was a campaign of ignorance" would be considered as what kind of term? simile rhythm personification metaphor

6. This term simply refers to how the poem is divided, and could be loosely referred to as the sentences of the poem. Do you know what the term is? lines meter stanza form

7. The following are examples of this term: "boom" "buzz" "crunch". Do you know what term I am referring to? onomatopoeia consonance assonance alliteration

8. If you read the line: "He whispered into the dark, dank heart of the night", you would think of what term to use? consonance assonance rhythm meter

9. If I wrote the line "The ship was in distress upon the livid sea", I would be using which term? consonance rhyme assonance alliteration

10. This term refers to the repeated rhythmic pattern found in the poem; the one William Shakespeare used when writing his sonnets is known as "iambic". Do you know this term? line form meter verse