Literary Techniques Review: Poetry

The line:

"Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room"

is an example of....

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

• Simile

• Repetition

Which literary element(s) are seen in this stanza:

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

• Imagery

• Simile

• Rhyme

• All of the Above

What is the definition of a simile?

• Comparing two different things to make a description more vivid.

• Comparing two different things to make a description more vivid using the words like or as.

• An expression on your face to show happiness.

• Exaggerating the meaning of something to make it more vivid.

What is the definition of personification?

• When words describe a person in a poem.

• When you can imagine something or visualize it.

• Creating a personality through activation of the five senses.

• Giving human qualities to a nonhuman form or the representation of something abstract in human form.

Which of the following was NOT a leading Black poet in America's history?

• Langston Hughes

• Walt Whitman

• Maya Angelou

• Donna Kate Rushin

COMPARE: What was SIMILAR about Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" and Hughes' poem "I, Too, Sing America"?

CONTRAST: What was DIFFERENT about Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" and Hughes' poem "I, Too, Sing America"?

Which of the following lines is a quote from Langston Hughes' poem "I, Too"?

• Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.

• They’ll see how beautiful I am

  And be ashamed—

• You may trod me in the very dirt

• I've had enough

What do you call one group of lines in a poem?

• Paragraph

• Section

• Category

• Stanza

Who was Maya Angelou?

• A Famous Poet

• A Dancer

• A Civil Rights Activist

• All of the Above