Poetry Pretest

Click all the figurative language and sound devices you can spot.

• Metaphor

• Conflict

• Personification

• True Rhyme

• Adjective

A comparison between two unlike things NOT using like or as; stating that something IS something else.

• Alliteration
• Imagery
• Metaphor
• Simile

A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.

• Metaphor
• Repetition
• Rhythm
• Simile

A group of lines in a poem.

• Rhyme Scheme
• Rhythm
• Line
• Stanza

A metaphor that carries the comparison through several lines or throughout an entire poem.

• simile
• metaphor
• extended metaphor
• comparable metaphor

A row of words in a poem.

• line
• stanza
• paragraph
• sentence

A word that imitates the sound it represents.

• personification
• hyperbole
• onomatopoeia
• repetition

An exaggeration for effect.

• onomatopoeia
• hyperbole
• topic
• theme

Descriptive words that create a picture in the reader's mind.

• topic
• alliteration
• imagery
• personification

Giving human qualities to a non-human animal, object or idea.

• hyperbole
• imagery
• allusion
• personification