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Test Description: Basic poetic terms that will appear on your test.
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1) An example of simile.
A
The rugged raft raced through the rapids.
B
Look at the loopy loon.
C
She was like a dove.
D
The giraffe spoke volumes.
2) An example of hyperbole.
A
She sells seashells by the seashore.
B
I had to write a million pages.
C
Argentina is arid in August.
D
The mouse put on his jacket.
3) An example of alliteration.
A
The mouse roared like a lion.
B
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
C
The dewy mist crept in the church yard, where rotting bodies lay to rest.
D
She was a peacock.
4) An example of assonance.
A
The thick quick mix fell on the slick floor.
B
Lennie was a mouse.
C
The beads mixed with the peas and the mean lady screamed.
D
I am so thirsty, I could drink an ocean.
5) A simile is:
A
giving human characteristics to non-human things.
B
an exaggeration.
C
a rhyme based on vowel sounds.
D
a comparison using like or as.
6) Imagery evokes:
A
the plot.
B
the five senses.
C
a simile.
D
the conflict.
7) Example of Personification:
A
The swift snake told the man, \
B
You can never tell with bees.
C
Play a lick on a clarinet stick.
D
Grim gremlins await groups of girls.
8) A rhyme scheme is:
A
a gross exaggeration.
B
a pattern of rhyme with the last word in lines of poetry.
C
the rhythm of a poem.
D
a comparison.
9) Enjambment is:
A
a stressed syllable.
B
the continuation of a sentence on a new line of poetry.
C
figurative language
D
a word that rhymes.
10) Meter is:
A
Giving human characteristics to things that are not human.
B
The basic rhythm of a poem, based on stressed and unstressed syllables.
C
The repetition of a particular sound or letter in a line of poetry.
D
Rhyme based on consonant sounds.
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