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WorksheetsSTAAR Poetry Vocabulary
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is this an example of: I could eat a horse
Simile
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Idiom
What is a hyperbole?
An extreme exaggeration
A comparison using "like" or "as"
Giving a non-human object human qualities
Nothing. You just made it up.
What is this an example of: The lion was a giant
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
True or false: A metaphor is a comparison made without using like or as. For example "The teacher is a mother hen."
True
False
What is imagery
An extreme exaggeration
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
A comparison made between two objects using the words like or as
The repetition of a vowel.
The tone is The attitude you feel in the poem
True
False
The feeling you get from reading the poem
Tone
Mood
Personification is-
A poem that is also an auto-biography
Putting a person in a poem
Giving a non-human object human qualities
What is assonance?
poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza
a verse, a line, a set, or a group of some lines that appears at the end of stanza, or appears where a poem divides into different sections.
The repetition of a vowel.
Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.
Which is the example of onomatopoeia
She ran swiftly
The bell rang
The boy sang
They all jumped
The author of a poem is called a poem writer.
True
False
What is the poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza.
A poem
You just made this whole question up
Rhyme scheme
Simile
A stanza is a paragraph in a poem.
False
True
You made this up
What is onomatopoeia
The comparison of two objects using like or as
language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation
Giving human qualities or actions to something that is not human
Words that imitate real sounds
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well
True
False
