STAAR Vocabulary Quiz 2

What is poetry?

• informational text

• text based on facts

• text that expresses feeling through figurative and sensory language

• text that expresses feeling through facts, but not opinions

A line in a poem is . . .

• one line in a poem

• a group of lines that look like a paragraph

• two lines in a poem

• a stanza

True or false? A stanza is a group of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph.

• True

• False

True or false? Tone is the way a reader is meant to feel after reading a poem.

• True

• False

What is mood in poetry?

• the way a reader is meant to feel after reading a poem

• the way the author feels about the subject of a poem

• a person's daily mood

• the reader's daily mood

Sensory language is important in poetry because . . .

• it provides extra, factual information.

• it persuades readers to buy the poem online.

• it provides readers with imagery.

• None of these answers are correct.

Figurative language is . . .

• meant to be taken literally.

• not meant to be taken literally.

What is a simile?

• comparing two things without using "like" or "as"

• comparing two things by using "like" or "as"

• giving human qualities to non-human things

• an exaggerated statement or claim

What is a metaphor?

• comparing two things without using "like" or "as"

• comparing two things by using "like" or "as"

• giving human qualities to non-human things

• a phrase, line, or group of lines repeated throughout a poem

What is personification?

• giving human qualities to non-human things

• a phrase, line, or group of lines repeated throughout a poem

• an exaggerated statement or claim

• using "like" or "as" to compare two things