Figurative Language/Poetic Terms Quiz

Using language to create a particular effect is known as ______.

• Figurative Language

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Repetition

What is an extreme exaggeration to make a point called?

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Fill in the blank: The primary images or pictures the author uses to convey meaning in a poem is called ______.

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Assonance

A comparison of two unlike things is known as ______.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Which term describes when the sound of a word suggests a particular thing?

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Repetition

Fill in the blank: To give human qualities to something that is not human is called ______.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

Which term refers to the specific words an author chooses?

• Diction

• Prose

• Stanza

• Theme

Fill in the blank: A comparison between two unlike things using like or as is called a ______.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What is a couplet?

• Two rhymed lines of poetry

• Four lines of poetry

• A group of lines

• The moral of the story.

Fill in the blank: A quatrain consists of ______ lines of poetry.

• two

• three

• four

• five