Poetry terms Practice

Which of the following statements is NOT true about poems?

• they usually express emotions and experiences

• they often have form and structure

• they always rhyme and are about love

• they often use figurative language and sound devices

Someone who writes a poem is known as a

• novelist

• playwrite

• poet

A group of line in a poem that form a unit are called a

• line

• stanza

• paragraph

• lyric

Language that is not meant to be taken literally is called

• literal

• metaphor

• figurative

• poetry

"I died of embarrassment" is an example of

• idiom

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

A common figurative phrase, like "you are on thin ice" is called an

• simile

• hyperbole

• idiom

Personification is when

• non-human things are given human qualities

• the initial consonant sound is repeated

• words imitate sounds

"That test was a bear" is an example of a

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as" is called a

• simile

• metaphor

• sound device

• rhyme

Alliteration is

• words that imitate sounds

• the repetition of initial consonant sounds

• the repetition of vowel sounds