Elements of Poetry Quiz

What is the term for the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry?

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• metaphor

Which literary device is used to describe something by comparing it to something else using 'like' or 'as'?

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

What is the term for a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to non-human things?

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• anthropomorphism

What is the term for a word or phrase that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning?

• hyperbole

• idiom

• simile

• metaphor

What is the term for a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement used for emphasis or effect?

• understatement

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• irony

What is the term for a group of lines forming a unit in a poem?

• paragraph

• stanza

• sentence

• verse

What is the term for a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as if it were something else?

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

What is the term for the use of words that imitate sounds?

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

What is the term for the use of vivid language to create mental images in the reader's mind?

• personification

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

What is the term for a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms?