Poetry Vocab Quiz

What is the message the author is trying to convey in a poem?

• Tone

• Theme

• Stanza

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

What is a group of lines in a poem that form a unit called?

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Shifts

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The termination of one line in a poem and the start of another.?

• Break

• Theme

• Shifts

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What does figurative language do in poetry?

• Describes nonhuman things using human characteristics

• Indicates a change of emotion or thought

• Uses vivid description that appeal to the reader's senses

• Creates meaning by comparing one thing to another thing

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is a comparison between two things called?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the use of vivid and descriptive language to create mental images for the reader in a poem called?

• Simile

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

What is the exaggeration of statements or claims not meant to be taken literally in a poem called?

• Simile

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

What is the comparison of one thing with another thing using "like" or "as"?

• Simile

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

When the author describes a nonhuman thing using human characteristics?

• Imagery

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Indicates a change of emotion or thought.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Shifts

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B