Poetry Elements Quiz

Poetry is:

• always a long make believe story, that has fictional characters

• writing pieces with rhythm and often rhyme, figurative language and vivid descriptions

• a story written about the life of someone famous

Which sentence is an example of hyperbole?

• My suitcase was hard to carry because it weighed a ton.

• My sister ate the last bag of candy.

• The squirrel ate the entire basket of nuts.

Which is an example of personification?

• The snow leaped from the paved as the snow blower cleared a path.

• My mother was so angry she couldn’t see straight.

• I sleep the best on a rainy night.

Which words from the poem are examples of onomatopoeia?

• shushes, hushes, flitters, twitters

• laugh, road, hurts

• away, whiteness, hushes

Which poetry element compares two things using the words "like" or "as"?

• metaphor

• similie

• alliteration

which poetry element compares two things without using the words 'like" or "as"?

• metaphor

• similie

• alliteration

which poetry element adds human characteristics to an inanimate object or animal?

• metaphor

• alliteration

• personification

which poetry element makes great exaggerations that are usually funny?

• hyperbole

• similie

• onomatopoeia

what are word pictures created by using figurative language?

• metaphors

• imagery

• rhyme

what are words that imitate the sounds they describe

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• rhyme