Staar Poetry Review

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.
• Words that sound alike.
• An exaggeration.
• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

Define "rhyme."

• Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
• The repetition of a letter.
• The repetition of an ending sound.

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author
• Speaker
• Narrator
• Main character

What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Idiom

What poetic device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyberbole

What device is used here?

Good as gold

Busy bee

Living the life

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

What poetic device is used here:

"Once upon a midnight dreary,

while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain

• Rhyme

• Meter

• Simile

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

How is autumn different than summer in from "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”?

• Autumn is darker than summer.

• Summer is more frigid than autumn.

• Autumn is calmer than summer.

• Summer is more peaceful than autumn.