Poetry Quiz

Figure of speech using like or as to compare two unlike things

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration

Figure of speech directly comparing two unlike things without using like or as

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification

Descriptive language which appeals to one or more of the 5 senses

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Imagery

Writer's choice of words

• Mood
• Diction
• Tone

• Symbol

Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to make a point

• Hyperbole
• Personification

• Diction

Indirect reference to a well-known person, character, place, 

• Extended metaphor
• Shift
• Allusion
• Symbol

Move or change that is often indicated by the use of stanza shift or words such as but/however

• Shift
• Extended Metaphor
• Slant Rhyme

Metaphor used throughout a paragraph, a stanza, or an entire work

• Rhyme Scheme
• Internal Rhyme
• Extended Metaphor

Anything which represents something else, usually something abstract

• Shift
• Slant Rhyme
• Quatrain
• Symbol

Word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of which it describes

• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Allusion