Warm Up Spelling and Definitions

What word is used to describe a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing? It uses comparison words such as 'like', 'as', 'so', or 'than'.

• Simile

• Simili

• Metaphor

• Metafore

A figure of speech in which something is literally discribed as another thing to suggest a likeness.

'He is a walking dictionary.'

Putting human characteristics on something non-human is called...

• personafacation.

• personifacation.

• personafication.

• personification.

An author's _______ refers to their main reason for writing. It may be to entertain, inform, make fun of something, or persuade a reader.

• perpose

• purpose

• porpoise

• purpoes

What is the beat and pace of a poem or song called?

Which of the following devices conveys the author's attitude towards the subject they're writing about?

• Alliteration

• Tone

• Juxtaposition

• Rhyme

What word is used to describe the device where identical or similar concluding syllables in different words are repeated throughout a verse?

• Rhyme

• Ryme

• Rime

• Rhime

A poem that plays on the feelings of the reader is...

• imotiv.

• emotiv.

• imotive.

• emotive.

A poem that expresses its subject — whether it be a person, an animal, or an inanimate object — in great detail is...

• decisive.

• deceptive.

• descriptive.

• definitive.

A text that displays characteristics of poetry, often written in verse, can be described as...

• poetic.

• phonetic.

• aesthetic.

• dynamic.