Poetry Unit 6

What does the word personification mean?

• To give human characteristics to a non-human object

• To use words to create pictures in the reader’s mind

• To have different lengths of lines

• To compare two unlike things

The use of words to create a picture in the reader’s mind is

• free verse

• imagery

• metaphor

• personification

Which word means almost the SAME as individuality?

• alone

• dependent

• similar

• unique

Which of the following does not have roots?

• cars

• families

• plants

• trees

Which word means almost the SAME as mist?

• drench

• flow

• spray

• water

Free verse has irregular lines and

• lacks pattern and rhyme scheme.

• contains similes and metaphors.

• follows a pattern and rhymes.

• features human-like things.

Which word means the OPPOSITE of gobble?

• crumble

• nibble

• stumble

• wobble

Which of the following contains a metaphor?

• He was as clumsy as an ox.

• She moved like the wind.

• Life is a bowl of cherries.

• We walked to the store.

What does the poet compare to a drum?

• drumsticks

• people

• a rhythm

• the world

the sound of her work

a lullaby.

What type of figurative language is used in these lines?

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

• simile