Quiz poetry guides

What is a poet?

• Someone who writes poems

• Someone who reads poems

• Someone who listens poems

What is the persona in a poem?

• The voice or character speaking in the poem who may not be the poet

• The person the poem is addressed to

• A metaphor used in the poem

What is the subject matter of a poem?

• The feelings of the poet

• The idea or the theme being explored in poem like love and war

• The setting of the poe

What does "I" typically represent in a poem?

• Always the poets personal self

• The speaker or narrator (persona) of the poem which could be the poet or a fictional character

• A metaphor for society

What is the subject of a poem?

• The emotional state of the poet when writing

• The specific location where the poem takes place

• The person the poem is addressed to

What is the structure of a poem?

• The way the words rhyme ,Stanza numbers and the number of lines in each stanza

• The meaning of the poem as a whole

• The length of each line without considering rhyme

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

• A direct comparison without using "like" or "as"

• Giving human traits to non-human things

What is a simile?

• A direct comparison of something

• An object representing a larger idea or concept

• A comparison using "like" or "as"

What is personification?

• Using a symbol to represent an abstract idea

• Giving human traits to non-human things

• A comparison between two unlike things

Which of the following is an example of a SIMILE?

• "Her smile was as bright as the sun."

• "The wind whispered through the trees."

• "The flag represents freedom."