Poetry Terms Quiz

An extreme exaggeration for effect is called:

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Connotation

• Free Verse

Making a creative comparison that is not literally true or portraying a person place or thing as being something else is called a:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Imagery

• Alliteration

A pattern of rhyme at the end of lines in a poem (measured with letters -- ABC, etc) is called a:

• Free Verse

• Rhyme Scheme

• Connotation

• Stanza

Giving human-like characteristics or human actions to objects, animals or ideas is called:

• Alliteration

• Tone

• Imagery

• Personification

Using the words "like" or "as" or another connective word to compare one thing to another in a creative and indirect way is called a:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Stanza

• Hyperbole

Normal writing -- all grammar rules apply would be considered:

• Free Verse

• Rhyme Scheme

• Prose

• Connotation

Words that make a sound is called:

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Tone

• Personification

The feelings that are attached to words, beyond literal meaning is called:

• Connotation

• Tone

• Stanza

• Personification

Using language that creates a picture in the reader's minds (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures) is called:

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Tone

• Personification

When the beginning sounds of words are repeated is called:

• Onomatopoeia

• Connotation

• Rhyme Scheme

• Alliteration