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