The Power of Poetry

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

Poetry uses ____ devices like rhythm and rhyme.

• Sound

• Sight

• Taste

• Touch

Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.

• Musical
• Old-fashioned
• Important
• Difficult

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Idiom

Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Hyperbole

What is "onomatopoeia" ?

• An exaggeration
• Sound words
• Rhyming words
• A form of imagery

Does not rhyme.

• narrative
• free verse
• narrative
• lyrical

Match the following types of figurative language to their meanings.

• Idiom

• An indirect comparison between unlike things using words such as “like,” “as,” or “than”

• Metaphor

• Giving human traits or abilities to inanimate objects or animals

• Simile

• A direct comparison between unlike things

• Personification

• An expression particular to a specific group of people or culture

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Figurative language

Match the following types of figurative language to their meanings.

• Hyperbole

• a polite expression used in place of words or phrases that otherwise would be considered harsh or unpleasant

• Understatement

• an extreme exaggeration used to make a point or stress an idea

• Symbolism

• when a person, place, thing, or concept is used to represent something other than its typical definition

• Euphemism

• making something seem less important or less severe than it really is

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Figurative language