6th Grade Interactive Poetry Terms

6th Grade Interactive Poetry Terms Matching 

6th Grade Interactive Poetry Terms

This 6th Grade Interactive Poetry Terms Matching Activity allows students to input answers, check answers, clear answers, reveal answers and go on to the next matching set.

  1. alliteration – The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry.
  2. free verse – Poetry that doesn’t follow a specific rhyme or meter pattern.
  3. haiku – A three-line Japanese poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
  4. hyperbole – An exaggeration for emphasis, like “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.”
  5. imagery – Vivid descriptions that create mental pictures for the reader.
  6. limerick – A five-line poem with a specific AABBA rhyme scheme and humorous content.
  7. metaphor – A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
  8. narrative – A type of poem that tells a story.
  9. onomatopoeia – Words that imitate the sound they represent, like “buzz” or “hiss.”
  10. personification – Giving human characteristics to non-human things or animals.
  11. rhyme – The repetition of sounds at the end of words.
  12. rhyme scheme – The pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
  13. rhythm – The pattern of beats or stresses in a line of poetry.
  14. simile – A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
  15. sonnet – A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and structure.
  16. stanza – A group of lines in a poem.
  17. symbol – An object or word that represents something deeper or abstract in a poem.
  18. tone – The author’s attitude or feeling towards the subject of the poem.
Poetry Terms Matching Activity

Poetry Terms Matching Activity

Matching Set 1

Stanza:
Rhyme:
Metaphor:
Simile:
Alliteration:
Personification:

A: A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
B: The repetition of sounds at the end of words.
C: A group of lines in a poem.
D: A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
E: Giving human characteristics to non-human things or animals.
F: The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry.

Matching Set 2

Onomatopoeia:
Haiku:
Imagery:
Rhyme Scheme:
Hyperbole:
Rhythm:

A: Words that imitate the sound they represent, like “buzz” or “hiss.”
B: A pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
C: A three-line Japanese poem with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
D: Vivid descriptions that create mental pictures for the reader.
E: An exaggeration for emphasis, like “I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.”
F: The pattern of beats or stresses in a line of poetry.

Matching Set 3

Tone:
Symbol:
Limerick:
Free Verse:
Narrative:
Sonnet:

A: Poetry that doesn’t follow a specific rhyme or meter pattern.
B: A type of poem that tells a story.
C: A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and structure.
D: A five-line poem with a specific AABBA rhyme scheme and humorous content.
E: The author’s attitude or feeling towards the subject of the poem.
F: An object or word that represents something deeper or abstract in a poem.

 

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