QUIZ on Poetry Elements

Her eyes staring back at me were dark pieces of coal is an example of...

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

I am a giant

I am an eagle, oh

I am a lion

Down in the jungle

I am a marching band

I am the people, oh

I am a helping hand

I am a hero

The author uses _________________ to compare him/herself to various things.

• alliteration

• metaphors

• onomatopoeia

• personification

The line "Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof" uses a simile to create a mood of -

• bewilderment

• discouraged

• optimism

• unbothered

'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs

From ten thousand lightning bugs

As they tried to teach me how to dance

A foxtrot above my head

A sock hop beneath my bed

A disco ball is just hanging by a thread

Which line uses hyperboles to expresses the author's feelings?

• Cause I'd get a thousand hugs

• From ten thousand lightning bugs

• As they tried to teach me how to dance

• A foxtrot above my head

I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller

I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her

I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat

And a six four Impala

Lines 1-4 is an example of -

• alliteration

• line break

• repetition

• stanza

You're broken down and tired

Of living life on a merry go round

And you can't find the fighter

But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out

And move mountains

We gonna walk it out

And move mountains

Which words or phrases create imagery?

• Of living life on a merry go round

• And you can't find the fighter

• But I see it in you

• We gonna walk it out

I fly with the stars, in the skies

I am no longer trying to survive

I believe that life is a prize

But to live, doesn't mean you're alive

The underlined phrase is an example of a -

• alliteration

• line break

• metaphor

• personification

I could fill your cup

You know my river won't evaporate

This world we still appreciate

You could be my luck

Even in a hurricane of frowns

I know that we'll be safe and sound (safe and sound)

We're safe and sound (safe and sound)

I could show you love

In a tidal wave of mystery

You'll still be standing next to me

What extended metaphor is the writer using?

• comparing love to sound

• comparing frowns to sound

• comparing sadness to sound

• comparing love to water

Which lines use personification?

You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it

You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes

You’re paralyzed

‘Cause this is thriller, thriller night

And no one’s gonna save you from the beast about to strike.

• lines 1 and 2

• lines 2 and 3

• lines 3 and 4

• lines 4 and 5

How does the writer use line breaks?

This here is all about

My wife, my kids

the life that I live (uh-huh)

Through the night,

I was his (uh-huh), it was right, but I did

My ups and downs (uh),

my slips, my falls (uh)

My trials and tribulations (uh),

my heart, the walls (uh)

• the writer uses alliteration in every sentence

• the writer uses similes every other sentence

• the writer uses an onomatopoeia between lines

• the writer uses rhythm every 3rd sentence