Honors Poetry Review

In literature, Conflict is best described as...

• an argument.

• a battle.

• when someone, or something, stands in the way of what a character strongly desires.

• when two characters have a confrontation.

The main conflict in Drops of Jupiter is...

• the speaker has lost his girlfriend.

• the speaker is depressed.

• the speaker is learning to live without his deceased mother.

• the speaker is lost in outer space.

A metaphor is...

• comparing two things that are alike using like or as.

• comparing two things that are not normally alike without using like or as.

• an object or color that represents an idea.

• a reference to another text that most people know.

An example of a metaphor is...

• Spring has sprung.

• Spring's green fingers embraced her.

• She is Spring.

• "She listens like Spring..."

A simile is...

• comparing two unlike things without using like or as.

• comparing two things without using like or as.

• comparing two unlike things using like or as.

• giving human qualities to something that is not living.

An example of a simile from Drops of Jupiter is...

• "Did you fall for a shooting star?"

• "She listens like Spring and talks like June."

• "did the wind sweep you off your feet?"

• "did you sail across the sun?"

Alliteration is...

• an object that represents an idea.

• description that appeals to the senses and paints a picture.

• the use, in speech or writing, of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.

• giving human qualities to something that is not living.

An example of alliteration is...

• "She talks like June"

• They got little cars that go beep, beep, beep."

• The students sat silently studying Science.

• "She checks out Mozart."

Personification is...

• comparing two unlike things using like or as.

• giving human, or living, qualities to something that is not living.

• a reference to a text that most people know.

• description that appeals to the senses and paints a picture in the reader's mind.

Imagery is...

• writers using their imagination.

• a reference to another text that many people know.

• appealing to the senses with description.

• comparing two unlike things.