Language Arts 3 Poetry Test

Which term is the emotional response evoked by a word?

• Consonance
• Assonance
• Connotation
• Denotation

True or False: Raining cats and dogs is a metaphor.

• True
• False

True or False: "She is as innocent as an angel" is a metaphor

• True
• False

What term literally means “name making?” It is the process of creating or using words that imitates sounds.

• Onomatopoeia
• Anaphora
• Alliteration
• Repetition

Which figurative device is utilized with the multiple exposure of the lines "Tyger Tyger, burning bright,/In the forests of the night;/What immortal hand or eye,/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"?

• Repetition
• Allusion
• Anaphora
• Anthropomorphism
• Alliteration

Which figurative device is utilized with the "ie" sound in the lines "Tyger Tyger, burning bright,/In the forests of the night;/What immortal hand or eye,/Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"?

• Assonance
• Allusion
• Anaphora
• Anthropomorphism
• Alliteration

In "The Chimney Sweeper" Of what is the "coffin of black" painting an image?

• A coffin

• A Chimney

• A empty room

• Depression

Which figurative device is utilized with the line "Crying "weep! 'weep!" in notes of woe!"?

• Onomatopeoia
• Allusion
• Analogy
• Assonance
• Consonance

What is the theme of "The Chimney Sweeper"? What is Blake attempting to convey through these poems?

• Depression

• Bad things happen to good people like people getting sold into slavery, alluding to the Bible story of Joseph being sold as a slave by his brothers.

• Chimney sweeping was a bad life because so many kids from poor families were sold.

• How could the same God who creates good families that go to church allow children to die in chimneys?

Which term shows the denotation of a snake?

• deceiving
• evil person
• devil
• serpent