Here is the poetry study guide that you can use to help prepare for the test. Remember that it will be part matching and part multiple-choice.
Alliteration: repeating sounds at the start of words.
Dirty dog, frigid frog, white whale, drab door
Sensory details: any details that a writer uses that evoke or bring about the senses in the writing. Remember, writers can make you see, feel, smell, hear, or taste.
Personification: when a nonhuman object/animal is given human traits, abilities, or actions.
The kettle yelled at me, signaling that the water was ready.
The mosquito sucked away at my blood in anger, cursing at me the whole time.
Simile: a comparison of two unlike things using like, as, or than.
Your smile is brighter than the sun.
Frodo is smaller than a grain of sand.
Metaphor: a comparison of two unlike things. DO NOT use like, as, or than!
Your smile is the shining sun
The tree is an empty barren desert
Mood: the emotions that a poet tries to bring out in his/her poem.
Stanza: a "paragraph" for poetry
Line: the most basic units of poetry. Series of lines make up stanzas.
Hyperbole: when a writer exaggerates something that isn't really that important for comical effect.
Ah, this paper cut. My finger's about to fall off!
Selena Gomez's songs are more beautiful than a chorus of angels.
Understatement: when a writer makes something seem not important when it actually is.
I lost a couple of limbs in the accident, whatever.
It was just an 8.5 earthquake, that's all.
Perfect/exact rhyme: when most of a pair of words rhyme with each other.
Berry/very Tough/rough House/mouse
Near/half rhyme: when only a small part of the end of a pair of words rhyme with each other.
Proud/thud Dog/fog
Eye rhyme: when a word looks like it should rhyme but it actually does not.
Rough/bough
Rhyme scheme: a pattern of rhymes at the end of lines of poetry.
AA BB CC DD EE FF is an example of rhyme scheme.
ABAB CDCD EEFF GG is another example of rhyme scheme.
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