Language Arts Poetry Test

Front 1

repetition of initial consonant sounds

Back 1

alliteration

Front 2

words that make imitate sounds

Back 2

onomatopoeia

Front 3

repetition of sounds at ends of words

Back 3

rhyme

Front 4

the pattern of strong and weak beats

Back 4

rhythm

Front 5

a literary device that stimulates ideas, assosiations and extra info in the readers mind with only a word or phrase

Back 5

allusion

Front 6

a scene within a story that interrupts the sequence of events to related events that occourred in the past

Back 6

flashback

Front 7

the authors use of clues to hint at what might happen later in the story

Back 7

foreshadowing

Front 8

a literary technique that involves surprising interesting or amusing contradictions. for instance dramatic irony is a contradiction between what a character thinks and feels and what the reader or audience knows to be true

Back 8

irony

Front 9

something concrete that stands for something elese such as an idea or emotion. the eagle is often used as a symbol

Back 9

sybol

Front 10

the way the author feels

Back 10

tone

Front 11

the way the author makes you feel

Back 11

mood

Front 12

a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas

Back 12

simile

Front 13

a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else

Back 13

metaphor

Front 14

a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

Back 14

personification