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STAAR Poetry Vocabulary

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is this an example of: I could eat a horse

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Idiom

2.

What is a hyperbole?

a)

An extreme exaggeration

b)

A comparison using "like" or "as"

c)

Giving a non-human object human qualities

d)

Nothing. You just made it up.

3.

What is this an example of: The lion was a giant

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

4.

True or false: A metaphor is a comparison made without using like or as. For example "The teacher is a mother hen."

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What is imagery

a)

An extreme exaggeration

b)

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

c)

A comparison made between two objects using the words like or as

d)

The repetition of a vowel.

6.

The tone is The attitude you feel in the poem

a)

True

b)

False

7.

The feeling you get from reading the poem

a)

Tone

b)

Mood

8.

Personification is-

a)

A poem that is also an auto-biography

b)

Putting a person in a poem

c)

Giving a non-human object human qualities

9.

What is assonance?

a)

poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza

b)

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.

c)

The repetition of a vowel.

d)

Repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase.

10.

Which is the example of onomatopoeia

a)

She ran swiftly

b)

The bell rang

c)

The boy sang

d)

They all jumped

11.

The author of a poem is called a poem writer.

a)

True

b)

False

12.

What is the poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza.

a)

A poem

b)

You just made this whole question up

c)

Rhyme scheme

d)

Simile

13.

A stanza is a paragraph in a poem.

a)

False

b)

True

c)

You made this up

14.

What is onomatopoeia

a)

The comparison of two objects using like or as

b)

language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation

c)

Giving human qualities or actions to something that is not human

d)

Words that imitate real sounds

15.

Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, often making the voices of a narrator and characters as well

a)

True

b)

False