Poetry/ Figurative Language Quiz

What is poetry?

• A type of dance

• A special kind of writing that makes art with language

• Someone who write a poem

• someone who reads a poem

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Who is typically the speaker in a poem?

• The author of the textbook.

• The person who writes the poem

• The person telling the poem or the narrator.

• The audience listening to the poem

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What does a line break in poetry help to create?

• line of poetry

• Chapters

• Pauses and rhythms

• A title

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What is a stanza in poetry comparable to?

• A sentence

• A chapter

• A title

• A paragraph

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What defines a rhyme in poetry?

• The length of words

• The first letter of words

• Words with the same ending sounds

• The number of words in a line

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The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words

• Rhyme

• Stanza

• Point of View

• Simile

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The author of the poem

• poem

• poet

• stanza

• poetry

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Identify the type of figurative language used in the following sentence: "The wind whispered through the dark forest."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

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Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

• The snow is a white blanket.

• She is as busy as a bee.

• He swims like a fish.

• The classroom was a zoo.

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Which of the following best describes the use of simile in poetry?

• A direct comparison between two unlike things

• An exaggerated statement used for effect

• A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Giving human characteristics to non-human objects

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