Unit 3 Post Test: Poetry

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

• An overexaggeration

• Giving human qualities to non-human things

• Sound words

What is a hyperbole?

• Sound words

• An overexaggeration

• A tragic twist on what should be a happy event

• Creating pictures in your head as you read

What is a simile?

• Sound words

• Comparing two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as'

• Giving human qualities to non-human things

• Repeating of initial sounds two or more times in a sentence

Alliteration is:

• creating a picture in a readers mind

• sound words

• repeating of initial sounds two or more times in sentence

• an exaggeration

Personification is:

• a tragic twist on what should be a happy event

• a person

• sound words

• giving human qualities to non-human things

What is onomatopoeia?

• comparing two unlike things without using the words 'like' or 'as'

• creating a picture in the readers mind

• the music quality of a poem

• sound words

Irony is:

• a division in a poem

• words that end in the same sound, same rhyme

• the difference between what happens and what we expect to happen

• sound words

Imagery is:

• creating mental images in the readers mind

• an exaggeration

• repeating of initial sounds two or more times in a sentence

• end rhymes

What is the 'rhyme' in a poem?

• words that end in the same sound; end rhyme

• the musical quality of a poem

• sound words

• an exaggeration

What is repetition in a poem?

• a division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains

• to repeat words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem

• the musical quality of a poem

• words that end in the same sound; end rhyme