All About the Speaker
Poetry
Figures of Speech
100
I am the speaker in a story.
What is the narrator?
100
This is a smaller unit of text within a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
This is a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile.
200
This is the author's attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
200
This is the physical structure of a poem.
What is form?
200
This occurs when objects are given human characteristics.
What is personification?
300
I am a speaker who does and says things that make me seem untrustworthy or dishonest.
What is an unreliable narrator?
300
This type of poem contains a series of images about a certain topic.
What is a catalog poem?
300
Language that appeals to one of the five senses.
What is imagery?
400
This is how a story makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
400
This type of poem, which is Japanese in origin, contains 17 syllables in 3 lines following the 5-7-5 form.
What is haiku?
400
This is a comparison that does not use "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
500
When you use clues from a text to draw a conclusion, you make one of these.
What is an inference?
500
This type of poem contains 14 lines.
What is a sonnet?
500
This is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words that are near each other.
What is alliteration?
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