Introduction to Poetry: What makes a poem, a poem? | Starter Quiz | Oak National Academy

What does a poem normally express?

• Facts and statistics.

• Thoughts and feelings.

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What is the definition of figurative language?

• Language that belongs to another culture.

• Language that includes facts and statistics.

• Language that is used to create powerful pictures in our minds.

• Language that we use all the time in our everyday speech.

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Which of these is the definition of metaphor?

• A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.

• A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

• A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.

• Words that sound like the noise they describe.

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Which of these is the definition of simile?

• A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.

• A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

• A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.

• Words that sound like the noise they describe.

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Which of these is the definition of personification?

• A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.

• A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

• A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.

• Words that sound like the noise they describe.

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Which of these is the definition of onomatopoeia?

• A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.

• A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

• A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.

• Words that sound like the noise they describe.

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How long do we think poems have existed?

• Almost as long as humans have existed.

• Fifteen hundred years.

• Four hundred years.

• Nine years.

Which of these are forms (types) of poetry?

• Leaflets, advertisements and posters.

• Letters, speeches and newspaper articles.

• Sonnets, lyrics, ballads, haikus and odes.

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