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Elements of Poetry Test

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. personification
  2. Colorful Language
  3. Rhythm
  4. imagery
  5. figure of speech
  1. a Poets use colorful, vivid language and figures of speech to create _____.
  2. b the pattern of beats in a line of poetry or prose.
  3. c language meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally.
  4. d precise and lively words and phrases that help to create clear pictures in the reader's mind.
  5. e describing something not human as if it were human.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. one with a shape that suggests its subject.
  2. repetition of sounds at the ends of words (locks, box, and socks.)
  3. comparison using like or as.
  4. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of syllables (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper)
  5. more than one use of a sound, word, or phrase.

5 True/False Questions

  1. sensory detailswords and phrases that describe how things look, sound, smell, taste and feel.

          

  2. symbolthe feeling or emotion the writer creates in a literary word.

          

  3. imagePoets use colorful, vivid language and figures of speech to create _____.

          

  4. sounda new word crated by joining together two old ones.

          

  5. Metaphorfigure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another.