Poetry - Insight Intermediate Unit 9

Tick all the sentences that include a metaphor.

• All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree.

• Her tears flowed like a river down her cheeks.

• Small fires raced through the forest.

• The ballerina was a swan, gliding across the stage.

A verse is a group of lines that form a unit of a poem and a stanza is a piece of writing arranged in short lines.

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• Incorrect

Write the word for this definition:

ordinary language used in speech or writing

What figure of speech is illustrated in this example?

Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers.

• Personification

• Simile

• Imagery

• Rhythm

What figure of speech is illustrated in this example?

The tired old car coughed and weezed and crawled down the street.

• Simile

• Personification

• Imagery

• Rhyme

Tick the senteces in which imagery is used.

• The night was black as ever, but bright stars lit up the sky in beautiful and varied constellations which were sprinkled across the astronomical landscape.

• The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight. It is a dull yet lurid orange in some places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.

• “I heard the rain still beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank.”

A theme is the subject of a piece of writing and a symbol is an object that represents something.

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• Incorrect

Tick the figures of speech illustrated in the example:

Twinkle, twinkle little star,

How I wonder what you are

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

• Rhyme

• Symbol

• Simile

• Allegory