Poetry Vocab Quiz

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

• Tone

• Theme

• Stanza

• Imagery

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

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Shifts

• Stanza

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

• Break

• Theme

• Shifts

• Imagery

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

What is a comparison between two things called?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Metaphor

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

• Simile

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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

• Simile

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

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

• Simile

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

When the author describes a nonhuman thing using human characteristics?

• Imagery

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Indicates a change of emotion or thought.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Shifts

• Hyperbole