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Poetry Terms

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does alliteration mean?

a)

an extreme exaggeration

b)

Words that start with the same sound

c)

Words that start with the same letter

d)

A direct comparison of two unlike things

2.

What is a hyperbole?

a)

a thought

b)

a shoutout

c)

a lame exaggeration

d)

an extreme exaggeration

3.

What does imagery mean?

a)

no details

b)

a fancy looking image or photo

c)

descriptive details using the five senses

d)

a detail

4.

What is a metaphor?

a)

a direct comparison of two alike things

b)

a direct comparison of two unlike things

c)

a direct comparison using your eyes

5.

What is an onomatopeia?

a)

words that imitate a sound

b)

words that don't make sense

c)

words that have a feeling

6.

What does personification mean?

a)

a cat that talks

b)

a girl who runs

c)

giving nonhuman things human characteristics

d)

a cow that moos

7.

What does rhyme mean?

a)

when two words have the same ending vowel and consonant sound

b)

when two words have the same ending vowel and barking sound

c)

when two words have the other ending vowel and consonant sound

8.

What is a rhyme scheme?

a)

a pattern of repeating squares

b)

a pattern of lines

c)

a pattern on the wall

d)

a pattern of rhyming lines

9.

What is a stanza?

a)

a paragraph of literature

b)

a paragraph of poetry

c)

a paragraph of fiction

d)

a paragraph of non-fiction

10.

What is symbolism?

a)

a contrast of two alike things using a sentence

b)

a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"

c)

a comparison of two alike things using the words "so" or "but"

d)

a comparison of two unlike things using the words "and" or "then"

11.

What is a line?

a)

a row of words

b)

a row of shelves

c)

a row of sentences

d)

a row of books