Which answer choice is a type of sound device in poetry?
a. Stanza
b. Alliteration
c. Couplet
b. Alliteration
Example: Kathy kicked the curb.
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A sound word is:
a. Alliteration
b. Assonance
c. Onomatopoeia
c. Onomatopoeia
Ex: bang, pow, swish
100
This type figurative language gives human traits to objects.
Ex: "The sky became angry and dark."
a. Hyperbole
b. Simile
c. Personification
d. Metaphor
c. Personification
Ex: The sky became angry and dark.
100
Chunks/sections of poetry are called:
a. Rhythm
b. Stanzas
c. Rhyme scheme
b. Stanzas
100
What is the tone of the following excerpt:
" And the silken, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;"
a. happiness
b. anger
c. fear
c. fear
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What answer is a part of figurative language?
a. Stanza
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
d. Both b and c
d. Both b and c (Metaphor and Simile)
200
The repetition of consonants at the beginning of several words in a line of poetry.
a. Alliteration
b. Assonance
C. Onomatopoeia
a. Alliteration
Ex: Frogs have fantastic fun.
200
This type figurative language uses "like" and "as" to compare two things.
Ex: "The moon is like swiss cheese."
a. Hyperbole
b. Simile
c. Personification
d. Metaphor
b. Simile
200
The pattern of rhymes in a poem is called:
a. Rhythm
b. Stanzas
c. Rhyme scheme
c. Rhyme scheme
200
In a poem the speaker is:
a. The same as the author.
b. Can be anyone or anything.
c. None of these.
b. Can be anyone or anything.
THE SPEAKER CAN BE ANYTHING IN A POEM! EVEN A ROCK!
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Which answer choice is a part of poetic form?
a. Rhyme scheme
b. Alliteration
c. Simile
a. Rhyme scheme
300
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.
a. Alliteration
b. Assonance
c. Onomatopoeia
b. Assonance
Ex: I like to fly high in the sky.
300
This type figurative language says that on thing is the same as something else?
Ex: "The sun is a radiant goddess."
a. Hyperbole
b. Simile
c. Personification
d. Metaphor
d. Metaphor
300
Stanzas are often used to signal:
a. A change is ideas
b. A change in tone
c. A change in sections of the plot
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
300
Use context clues to figure out what "acquiesce" means in the following passage:
"Angela did not want to go to the party. She wanted to study for the exam, but her sister nagged her so much that Angela finally acquiesced and agreed to go."
a. refusal
b. argued
c. gave in
d. laughed
c. gave in
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Which type of poetry is written like a story with conflict, characters, setting, and plot?
a. lyric
b. narrative
b. narrative
400
"The cat in the hat is fat."
This is an example of:
a. Alliteration
b. Assonance
b. Assonance
400
This type figurative language involves an extreme exaggeration?
Ex: "I'm so hungry I could eat a hippo!"
a. Hyperbole
b. Simile
c. Personification
d. Metaphor
a. Hyperbole
400
If a poet puts only 1 or 2 words on one line they are probably doing so to create:
a. Confusion
b. Emphasis
c. Humor
b. Emphasis
400
Use context clues to figure out what "candor" means in the following passage:
"After weeks of avoiding him, Annie finally found the courage to tell David that she wasn’t interested in him; and even though David was heart broken, he appreciated her candor."
a. Rudeness
b. Honesty
c. Laughter
b. Honesty
500
Which type of poetry is written in a sing song way?
a. Lyric poetry
b. Narrative poetry
a. Lyric poetry
500
"Tardy teachers can be troubling."
This is an example of:
a. Alliteration
b. Assonance
a. Aliiteration
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This type figurative language appeals to the reader's senses (sight, taste, touch, sound, smell)?
Ex: "The plums we so cold and sweet with soft deep maroon skin."
a. Hyperbole
b. Imagery
c. Personification
d. Metaphor
b. Imagery
500
What form of poetry uses common words and create an image that is precise and straight to the point?
Ex: "So much depends on the red wheelbarrow..."
a. Lyric
b. Romantic
c. Imagist
c. Imagist
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What involves the basic plot of the poem and the main idea:
a. Summary
b. Figurative language
c. Rhyme scheme