Poetry Unit Test

When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds, it's called...

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• apostrophe

A comparison using “like” or “as” is called...

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• oxymoron

A comparison identifying one thing as being the same as another unrelated thing is called...

• metaphor

• anaphora

• simile

• apostrophe

the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect is called...

• imagery

• Idiom

• anaphora

• alliteration

Giving a thing, idea, or animal human characteristics is called...

• allusion

• hyperbole

• imagery

• personification

The use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses is called...

• Symbol

• apostrophe

• imagery

• Idiom

A stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series is called...

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

• apostrophe

A reference to something of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance is called...

• apostrophe

• allusion

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

Which kind of poem has no specific rhyme or regular meter?

• Four stanza poem

• free verse

• ballad

• limerick

Which kind of poem has three lines: line one and three having five syllables and line two having seven?

• Limerick

• Couplet

• Quatrain

• Haiku