POETRY UNIT EXAM – TERMS WELL EXPLAINED #7
Alliteration - correct answer Sounds repeated at BEGINNINGS of several words
Free verse - correct answer Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
Metaphor - correct answer Comparison WITHOUT using like or as. An example of this
is: "My heart's a stereo."
Simile - correct answer Comparison using like or as. An example of this is: "My love is
like a red, red rose."
Stanza - correct answer Unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing
between sections of the poem.
Symbol - correct answer An object or action that means something more than its literal
meaning.
Theme - correct answer The central meaning or dominant MESSAGE the poet is trying
to deliver to the reader.
Tone - correct answer The attitude the poem's NARRATOR takes towards a subject or
character.
Verse - correct answer A single line of poetry.
Mood - correct answer The climate or feeling of a literary work that the READER gets
from reading it.
Rhyme scheme - correct answer Pattern of rhyming words or sounds, uses letters to
label lines that rhyme
Haiku - correct answer Traditional Japanese poem that focuses on nature, animals,
seasons, colors, and contrasts; three lines= 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables
Acrostic - correct answer A type of poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a
word or phrase
Allusion - correct answer A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or
work of art/literature.
Internal - correct answer A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at
the end of the line or in the middle of the next
Exaggeration - correct answer a way of over-emphasizing something
Alliteration - correct answer Sounds repeated at BEGINNINGS of several words
Free verse - correct answer Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.
Metaphor - correct answer Comparison WITHOUT using like or as. An example of this
is: "My heart's a stereo."
Simile - correct answer Comparison using like or as. An example of this is: "My love is
like a red, red rose."
Stanza - correct answer Unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing
between sections of the poem.
Symbol - correct answer An object or action that means something more than its literal
meaning.
Theme - correct answer The central meaning or dominant MESSAGE the poet is trying
to deliver to the reader.
Tone - correct answer The attitude the poem's NARRATOR takes towards a subject or
character.
Verse - correct answer A single line of poetry.
Mood - correct answer The climate or feeling of a literary work that the READER gets
from reading it.
Rhyme scheme - correct answer Pattern of rhyming words or sounds, uses letters to
label lines that rhyme
Haiku - correct answer Traditional Japanese poem that focuses on nature, animals,
seasons, colors, and contrasts; three lines= 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables
Acrostic - correct answer A type of poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a
word or phrase
Allusion - correct answer A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or
work of art/literature.
Internal - correct answer A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at
the end of the line or in the middle of the next
Exaggeration - correct answer a way of over-emphasizing something
