Literary Terms Test

Compares two unlike things NOT using the words like or as

• Simile

• Haiku

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

Giving human qualities to something that is not human

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

A humorous 5-line poem with a specific rhythm and pattern of rhyme

• Haiku

• Limerick

• Narrative

• Lyric

An extreme exaggeration

• Stanza

• Hyperbole

• Denotation

• Connotation

Writing or speech that is not to be taken literally (two words)

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers is an example of what?

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

"His speed is lightning."

This is an example of what?

• Metaphor

• Free Verse

• Simile

• Haiku

The repetiition of sounds at the END of words; pool, rule and fool

• Rhyme

• Metaphor

• Stanza

• Rhythm

A poem that tells a story (two words)

Repetition of similar consonant sounds at the BEGINNING of words.

• Rhyme

• Free Verse

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia