Poetry Vocab Quiz

What is Theme?

(a)  

Answer explanation

The theme of "The Raven" was death, loss, and grief.

What is the mood of the poem

(a)  

What is Onomatopoeia?

(a)  

Answer explanation

Onomatopoeia is frequently used in comic books to give "sound effects" to pictures.

Which of these is a Metaphor?

• My brother is a pig

• My brother eats like a pig

Which of these is a Simile

• She is a mouse.

• She is as quiet as a mouse.

Answer explanation

Similes use comparison words such as "like" or "as"

Which of these is alliteration?

• The shadow crept around the corner.

• Slippery snakes slither.

• My sister is so mad she might explode.

Personification is...

• giving animal characteristics to a person

• giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.

• Rhyming word patterns

• same beginning sounds in words nearby.

Rhythm is (a)  

Meter is...

• The pattern of syllables in a poem.

• the same as rhythm.

• when two words sound the same.

Haikus have a meter of

• 5 syllables per line.

• 7-5-7

• 5-7-5