Poetry, April 2

Match

Poetry Terms Matching Activity!

• Personification

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Metaphor

giving human qualities to not human.

words that create images

words sound like the noise they describe

comparison using the word “like” or “as”

comparison between two unlike things

• giving human qualities to not human.

• words that create images

• words sound like the noise they describe

• comparison using the word “like” or “as”

• comparison between two unlike things

Multiple Choice

What figurative language does the poet use in these lines?

• metaphor
• simile
• personification

• imagery

Multiple Choice

Swim in the light of the moon?”

“Yes, yes,” the mermaid answered me.

     10 “And sing many a beautiful tune.”

The description in these lines helps the reader pictures—

• the mermaid swimming gracefully in the moonlight

• the mermaid navigating through stormy seas

• fish jumping out of the water

• a lighthouse shining its beacon in the dark

Multiple Choice

Read the line 20. 

“I’m as ancient as the sea so blue!”

What figurative language does the poet use in this line?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Rhyme

Multiple Select

Read the lines. 

As they gaze across the glittering waves 

Aglow in the bright sunshine.”

• 1. gaze

• glittering

• aglow

• bright

• sunshine

Multiple Choice

“Oh mermaid, oh mermaid,

Where do you live,

Along the sandy shore?”

Which word in the sentence best help the reader understand the meaning of shore?

• mermaid

• live

• sandy

• where

Multiple Choice

      “Well, well,” the mermaid answered me.

“I’m as ancient as the sea so blue!”

What does the word ancient mean?

• Calm

• Deep

• Old

• Wide