NCVPS Eng. IV M4 Review

The underlined words in the poem excerpt below use which poetic device?

I raise my face up to the sky,

The heavens weep, the clouds' soft cry.

I look for solace in the cold, blank spaces

And love to fill my heart's cracked places.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Rhyming

When could you use a semicolon?

• After a dependent clause

• In place of a period

• Before a quotation

• At the end of a sentence

Which sentence uses hyphens correctly?

• My sister in-law moved to New York.

• My sister in law moved to New-York.

• My sister-in-law moved to New York.

• My-sister in law moved to New York.

Which sentence uses quotation marks correctly?

• Mother said, “Make sure you clean your room today”.

• Mother said, “Make sure you clean your room today.”

• Mother said “,Make sure you clean your room today.”

• Mother said, Make sure you clean your room today.”

You should use this punctuation mark to divide words that are split at the end of lines or to join word parts together.

• Apostrophe

• Hyphen

• Quotation Marks

• Comma

You should use this punctuation mark to show possession or to create a contraction.

• Apostrophe

• Hyphen

• Quotation Marks

• Comma

You should place this punctuation around someone’s exact words.

• Exclamation Marks

• Question Marks

• Quotation Marks

• Apostrophes

________________ takes a real-life situation and reduces it to make it ridiculous.

• Hyperbole

• Sonnet

• Understatement

• Simile

________________ is extreme exaggeration used for effect.

• Hyperbole

• Sonnet

• Understatement

• Simile

Whenever you listen to a __________, you are hearing poetry.

• song

• talk show

• friend

• bird