Poetry Figurative Language Review

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

• Sensory Language

• Hyperbole

• Figurative Language

• Onomatopoeia

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

• imagery

• metaphor

• connotation

• denotation

Which is an example of an simile?

• "Softly flowing native tongue"

• "a hundred strong men carrying the coffin"

• "Like an overturned high-heel"

• "The banana's umbrella" The banana leaves are compared to an umbrella.

"Word pictures" using the senses

• tone

• imagery

• symbol

• allusion

What is the theme of this stanza?

• Little kids have a hard time.

• Always keep trying.

• The sun shines.

• Always have on your training wheels.

Which poetry term refers to a group of lines arranged together in a poem?

• a)  Poet

• b)  Speaker

• c)  Stanza

• d)  Lines

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf,

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day

Nothing gold can stay.

What is the central theme of this poem?

• Nature

• Innocence cannot last

• Sunsets and sunrises are beautiful

• Nature and beauty

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words is called _________________________.

• personification

• a metaphor

• alliteration

• an allusion

The use of words that imitate sound is called ___________________.

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• a simile

• a hyperbole

A comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as" is called ___________________________.

• personification

• a metaphor

• mood

• a simile