Poetry Terms

The word 'thud', is an example of

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

'Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade' is an example of

• simile

• image

• personification

'proud pain of new button boot' contains two examples of

• alliteration

• rhyme

• metaphor

Which of the following is an example of enjambment?

(a) The orphan arrived in outlandish hat,

proud pain of new button boots.

(b) Alone,

she would cut her way through a new world's

graystone chapels, the steep and sideways...

• a

• b

'I knew you'd love your gaudy doll'

Is the word 'gaudy'

• A verb

• An adjective

• An adverb

The phrase: 'I carried her home like a Holy Fire the seven miles from the town' contains a (a)  

'A kitten wailed in a basket dementedly'. 'Dementedly' is:

• an adjective

• a verb

• an adverb

'Places of calm' contains repeated broad vowel sounds, an effect that is called:

• personification

• hyperbole

• assonance