02.18 | Poetry Escape Room Review

Multiple Choice

Identify the simile

• I like apples.
• Apples taste sweet.
• You're the apple of my eye.
• This apple is as sweet as candy.

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The best friends had so much in common they were like two peas in a pod. 
What two things are being compared in this this sentence?

• friends to peas
• friends to pods
• peas to pods
• best to friends

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The baby was like an octopus, pulling all the socks off the rack at the store.
What is the meaning of the simile above?

• The baby had 8 legs.
• The baby lives in the sea.
• The baby was pulling things off the rack so fast it seemed like it had many legs.
• The baby was sleeping. 

Multiple Choice

Identify the metaphor

• My heart was a bucket full of joy after all the sweet compliments.
• My heart is a muscle.
• My heart is like a hand pump pushing blood all throughout my body.
• My heart is like a muscle.

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The baby girl’s smile was the sun on dark days. 
What does the metaphor mean above?

• The baby girl's smile made other people happy.
• When the baby girl smiled the sun would rise. 
• The baby never smiled. 
• The baby girl's smile made the moon come out. 

Multiple Choice

What is a hyperbole?

• A comparison using "like" or "as".

• A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics.

• An exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally.

• an expressing whose meaning is different from the literal meaning.

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What does the hyperbole, "I have a million things to do today" mean?

• There are a million things to do today.

• There is nothing to do today.

• There is a lot to do tomorrow.

• There is a lot to do today.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a hyperbole?

• They lived in a small cabin in the woods.

• The boy was taller than the Eiffel tower.

• Jackson was eating a bite-sized candy bar.

• The moon is overwhelmingly beautiful tonight.

Multiple Choice

What is alliteration?

• the repetition of vowel sounds inside of nearby words

• the repetition of consonant sounds inside of nearby words

• the repetition of the beginning sounds of nearby words

• the feeling a reader gets from a text

Multiple Choice

Which detail from the following excerpt of the poem "Little Birds" contains alliteration?

Little Birds are feeding

Justices with jam,

Rich in frizzled ham:

Rich, I say, in oysters

Haunting shady cloisters -

That is what I am.

• "Little birds are feeding"

• "Justices with jam"

• "Rich in frizzled ham"

• "That is what I am"

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"When Adele walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her."
What is being personified?

• High Heels
• The store

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"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."
What is being personified?

• The walls
• The scream

Multiple Choice

What is an Onomatopoeia?

• A literary device in which a word imitates the sound it names

• A comparison using like or as.

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of nearby words.

Multiple Choice

An onomatopoeia is also known as what?

• An action word
• A descriptive word
• A sound word
• A statement

Multiple Choice

What does rhyme mean?

• having the same ending sound

• a pattern of the beats, like music

Multiple Choice

Two words that have the same ending sound are called...

• rhythm words
• repetitive words
• rhyming words
• stanza words

Multiple Choice

Rhyme scheme is the pattern of _______ that comes at the end of each line or stanza in poetry

• repeating

• rhyme scheme

• rhyming

• sounds

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Rhyme scheme helps keep _______ and can make the poem fun.

• rhymes

• the poem going

• me awake

• rhythm

Multiple Choice

Complete the rhyme scheme

• A

  B

• B

  A

• A

  A

• B

  B