STAAR Review of Literary Terms Poetry
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- Q 1/34Score 0A form of writing that often uses imagery, rhyme or rhythm to create an emotional response.29Poetry
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- Q1A form of writing that often uses imagery, rhyme or rhythm to create an emotional response.Poetry30sEditDelete
- Q2The pattern of end rhyme in a poem; each line is assigned a letter and lines that rhyme are given the same letter.Rhyme Scheme30sEditDelete
- Q3A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllablesRhythm30sEditDelete
- Q4Language that appeals to the senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell).Imagery30sEditDelete
- Q5Words that sound like their meaning.Onomatopoeia30sEditDelete
- Q6The repetition of INITIAL consonant sounds in words that are close together.Alliteration30sEditDelete
- Q7Giving human qualities to an object, animal, or idea.Personification30sEditDelete
- Q8When an object or idea represents something else.Symbolism30sEditDelete
- Q9A comparison between two unlike things, using the words like or as.Simile30sEditDelete
- Q10A comparison between two unlike things, WITHOUT using the words like or as.Metaphor30sEditDelete
- Q11An extreme exaggerationHyperbole30sEditDelete
- Q12Repetition of vowel sounds within neighboring words.Assonance30sEditDelete
- Q13Repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words.Consonance30sEditDelete
- Q14Comparisons between unrelated things or ideas to reveal the familiar in surprising ways. Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, imagery, and allusion are all types of this.Figurative Language30sEditDelete
- Q15a songlike poem that tells a story, often about adventure or romance.Ballad30sEditDelete
- Q16poetry that tells a story and includes a plot and charactersNarrative Poetry30sEditDelete
- Q17When lines are organized in units of meaning; always separated by extra white space.Stanzas30sEditDelete
- Q18when a poet repeats words, or linesRepetition30sEditDelete
- Q19poetry that lacks structure. It does not have a regular rhyme, rhythm, or stanza patternsFree Verse30sEditDelete
- Q20a three line Japanese form that describes something in nature. The first and third lines have five syllables, and the second line has seven.Haiku30sEditDelete
