Poetry Competition

A group of lines that divide a poem into sections is called a ______________.

• stanza

• line

• poem

A four-lined stanza

• Quatrain

• Couplet

• Free Verse

Poetry that does not rhyme

• ballad

• free verse

• verse

This is a...

My dog is as smelly as dirty socks.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

This is a...

You are one smart cookie!

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

Which of the following is an example of a hyperbole?

• "I'm as a cool as a cucumber!"

• "The girls are like two peas in a pod!"

• "After school I have a ton of homework to do!"

Which of the following is an example of personification?

• You are as a beautiful as a flower.

• The trees danced in the wind.

• I waited in line for 10 years!

What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses?(hearing, sight, taste, feel, smell)

• stanza

• onomatopoeia

• imagery

What is the meaning of the allusion:

Ask me anything, I'm like Google!

• I know all of the answers.

• I need the internet to survive.

• I am rich.

What is the "tone" in literature?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader

• The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject

• The time and place of the story