Personification in Poetry

*Disclaimer: all poems used in this quiz are from National Geographic's Book of Animal Poetry, ed. by J. Patrick Lewis, 2012.

Select the answer that shows personification. The garden mouse________________________________________.

• lives with the city mouse

• eats what he can

• lives in a bower

• is friendly with the frogs and toads

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True or False: "The spider is a lovely lady," shows personification.

• true

• false

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Select the line from, "Caterpillar," that shows personification.

• Caterpillar. Bulgy. Brown.

• Creeping up the rose.

• Soon he will be beautiful

• In his party clothes.

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True or False: "Cockroach Sandwich," shows personification.

Cockroach sandwich

For my lunch

Hate the taste

But love the crunch!

• true

• false

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True or False: "Listen... in the woods

a snowy owl is eating

the wind's syllable" is a Haiku.

• true

• false

A Haiku is what type of literature?

• informational text

• poetry

• fiction

• novel

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The structure of a Haiku is:

line 1 _____syllables

line 2 _____syllables

line 3 _____syllables

• 2,5,2

• 4,8,4

• 3,6,5

• 5,7,5

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True or False: Poets write poems to stir the reader's imagination or emotion.

• true

• false

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Poems are artistic writing that usually contain__________and __________.

• song, rhythm

• rhyme, meter

• words, feeling

• personification, haiku

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"I talk with the moon, said the owl," is meant:

• Literally

• Figuratively

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