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Name: ___________________________ Poetic devices vocabulary words Part I Block: _____ 1. assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds at any place in a series of words 2. alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words 3. onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate sounds 4. simile: A figure of speech (similar to a metaphor) that makes an indirect comparison between two unlike things using either like or as 5. metaphor: A direct comparison of two unlike things often using linking verbs such as: am, is, was, were 6. hyperbole: Deliberate exaggeration 7. personification: When a non-living object has been given qualities of a person 8. rhyme scheme: The pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem. It is referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme. Lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other 9. stanza: A group of lines in a poem, considered as a unit. Many poems are divided into stanzas that are separated by spaces. They function similarly to paragraphs 10. haiku: A three-line poem that originated from Japan, often about nature, with a syllable pattern of 5, 7, 5 Name: ___________________________ Block: _____ Word Bank assonance alliteration onomatopoeia haiku simile metaphor hyperbole personification rhyme scheme stanza Fill in the blank 1. The ______________________ of one of my favorite poems, Casey at the Bat, is A-A-B-B for the each of the 18 stanzas. 2. The jingle for Kellogg’s Rice Krispies is “Snap, Crackle, Pop,” which is also an example of ______________________. 3. A ______________________is a group of lines in a poem, considered as a unit. They function similarly to paragraphs. 4. “The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.” This is an example of ______________________. 5. “I kicked the cooler to the curb near the kangaroo,” is an example of ______________________. 6. ______________________ poetry primarily focuses on nature, and follows a regimented 5-7-5 syllable pattern with its three lines. 7. Alliteration, and ______________________, both incorporate the repetition of sounds. Alliteration focuses on consonant sounds, while this word focuses on vowel sounds. 8. Similes are similar to ______________________because both make indirect comparisons to two unlike things. But unlike similes, this example uses linking verbs. 9. “Are you serious? How much homework do we have? It’ll take me a year to complete all of these assignments,” is an example of ______________________. 10. This sentence is an example of a ______________________. “When she gets embarrassed, her face turns as red as an apple.”