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Poetry Terms Test

Part I Directions:Match the correct poetry term to the definition

  1. simile______
  1. personification______
  2. imagery______
  3. onomatopoeia______
  4. metaphor ______
  5. hyperbole ______
  6. repetition ______
  7. rhyme______
  8. idiom______
  9. Alliteration______

a.the comparison of unlike things using the words “like or as”

b.a figure of speech in which a thing, quality, or idea is given human-like characteristics

c.the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more closely associated words.

d.a word that imitates the sound it represents

e.the process of repeating words or phrases more than once

f.a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for effect

g.occurs when two words have the same ending sound

h.a phrase or a saying that means something different than it’s literal meaning

i.words or phrases that appeal to the reader’s five senses

j.the comparison of two unlike things; describing one thing as if it were another

Part II Directions: Underline or highlight the literary device in each sentence. Answer the multiple choice questions below by choosing the correct literary device for each example.

  1. Henry felt like a fish out of water at the new dog park.
  1. personification
  2. idiom
  3. metaphor
  1. I almost died laughing at the joke.
  1. simile
  2. hyperbole (exaggeration)
  3. alliteration
  1. The bacon that mom was making for breakfast sizzled on the stove.
  1. metaphor
  2. repetition
  3. onomatopoeia
  1. One lonely slice of pizza remained.
  1. personification
  2. repetition
  3. metaphor
  1. He could hear his heart beating, louder, louder, louder!
  1. simile
  2. repetition
  3. idiom

Read and analyze the poem below and answer the short answer questions.

I Like to See It Lap the Miles

Emily Dickinson

I like to see it lap the Miles—

And lick the Valleys up—

And stop to feed itself at Tanks—

And then—prodigious[1] step

5 Around a pile of Mountains—

And supercilious [2] peer

In Shanties—by the sides of Roads—

And then a Quarry pare

To fit its sides

10 And crawl between

Complaining all the while

In horrid—hooting stanza—

Then chase itself down Hill—

And neigh like Boanerges[3]—

15 Then—prompter than a Star

Stop—docile and omnipotent

At its own stable door—

  1. In stanza 1, what words or phrases compare the movements or actions of the train to those of a horse?

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  1. What two things are being compared in line 15? ______

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  1. How can a train or a horse be docile (tame) and omnipotent (all-powerful) at the same time? Explain this seeming contradiction. ______

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Is the Moon Tired?

Christina Rossetti

Is the moon tired? she looks so pale

Within her misty veil:

She scales the sky from east to west,

And takes no rest.

5 Before the coming of the night

The moon shows papery white;

Before the dawning of the day

She fades away.

19. What words and phrases does the poet use to personify the moon? ______

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**personify is the verb form of personification

20. What words in the poem rhyme? ______and ______; ______and ______; ______and ______; ______and ______.

  1. What does the speaker in the poem think made the moon tired and pale? ______
  1. What is the rhyme scheme of “Is the Moon Tired?” ______
  1. What is one example of assonance______and ______.

[1] Prodigious- adj.:enormous

[2] Supercilious- adj.: haughty or stuck up

[3]Boanerges: Biblical name meaning “sons of thunder.”