Poetry Review

What gives human qualities to something that is non-human?

• Sensory Language 
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia 
• Personification 

What describes one thing as if it were something else.

• Simile 
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia 

What is writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally?

• Hyperbole 
• Figurative Language 
• Sensory Language 
• Metaphor 

What is the use of words that imitate sounds? (Crash, bang, hiss, splat)

• Sensory Language 
• Hyperbole 
• Figurative Language 
• Onomatopoeia 

Alliteration?

• It's not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.
• Dyslexics of the world untie!
• Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!
• Darn dogs dancing.
  I’m the sleekest sheet slitter
  that ever slit sheets.

The author's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of the poem

• tone
• mood
• simile
• theme

Free verse poetry does not have...

• stanzas
• plot or conflict
• rhyming pattern
• serious topic

A sonnet has how many lines?

• 10
• 12
• 14
• 16

Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Hyperbole

The ideas and feelings associated with a word (positive, negative, or neutral) is the ________.

• imagery
• metaphor
• connotation
• denotation