Some Like Poetry

Poetry uses ____ devices like rhythm and rhyme.

• Sound
• Sight
• Taste
• Touch

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

• True
• False

Define "rhyme."

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

Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.

• Musical
• Old-fashioned
• Important
• Difficult

What is "alliteration" ?

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

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

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

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

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Idiom

Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Hyperbole

What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life

• Personification
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Rhyme