Figures of Speech in Poetry Quiz

What is personification in poetry?

• Giving human qualities to an object, animal, or abstract quality

• Describing a scene vividly

• Creating rhyming patterns

• Using metaphors and similes

What is hyperbole in poetry?

• A direct address to an absent person or thing

• A comparison using like or as

• A figure of speech where the name of one thing is replaced with something closely related

• An exaggeration

What is apostrophe in poetry?

• Addressing a thing or quality as if it were present or alive

• Creating paradoxical statements

• Giving human qualities to an object

• Using transferred epithets

What is synecdoche in poetry?

• An exaggeration

• Using a part to represent the whole

• Giving human qualities to an object

• Creating paradoxical statements

What is metonymy in poetry?

• Creating rhyming patterns

• Using transferred epithets

• Describing a scene vividly

• Replacing the name of one thing with something closely related

What figure of speech is used when the name of one thing is replaced with that of something else which is closely related to it?

• Metonymy

• Paradox

• Synecdoche

• Personification

Which figure of speech is a statement that at first glance seems to contradict itself, but then shows a deeper, logical meaning?

• Personification

• Paradox

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

What figure of speech is used when inanimate objects are given animal characteristics?

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Paradox

• Personification

Which figure of speech involves giving human qualities to an object, animal, or abstract quality?

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Personification

• Paradox

What figure of speech is an exaggeration used in day-to-day speech?

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

• Paradox

• Hyperbole/overstatement