ELA_Unit 1_Lesson 1_Poetry Terms

What does 'personification' mean as a literary technique?

What does 'alliteration' mean as a literary technique?

• Words in a sentence begin with similar sounds.

• Words in a sentence end with similar sounds.

• Words in a sentence have the same lettering.

• Words in a sentence have similar meanings.

What is the difference between onomatopoeia and alliteration?

• Alliteration cannot create rhythm.

• Onomatopoeia is a specific type of word, whereas alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds.

• Alliteration does not utilise sound.

• All of the answers.

Choose the onomatopoeia that best completes the sentence.

My ice-cream went _______ on the sidewalk.

• Crunch

• Fall

• Splat

• Drop

The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the shelves.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Neither

The giant's steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Neither

"The sun smiled down on us."

This is an example of _________.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoiea

A particular type of literature, painting, music, film or other art form which has special characteristics. This is known as ________.

• Genre

• Stanza

• Theme

• Tone

"If you see my dad in Heaven
He won't be hard to find.
He'll be the one to greet you first,
For he's a one-of-a-kind.”

What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

• ABAB

• ABCB

• ACBC

• ABBA

A group of lines separated by a line break in a poem are known as a __________.

• Group

• Paragraph

• Bunch

• Stanza