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KSA- Poetic Devices & Concepts Review

Quiz by Dakota Lunsford

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10 questions
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  • Q1

    A comparison that uses like or as.

    Personification

    Simile 

    Metaphor

    Hyperbole

    300s
  • Q2

    A comparison that DOES NOT use like or as.

    personification

    hyperbole

    metaphor

    simile

    300s
  • Q3

    An extreme exaggeration 

    personification

    simile

    hyperbole

    alliteration

    300s
  • Q4

    Giving human characteristics to non-human objects.

    hyperbole

    simile 

    alliteration 

    personification

    300s
  • Q5

    Language that is not literal.

    figurative language

    poetry

    metaphor 

    literal language

    300s
  • Q6

    The repetition of beginning sounds (i.e. How much would could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?)

    hyperbole

    alliteration

    simile

    metaphor

    300s
  • Q7

    A reference to something that happened in literature, mythology, history, etc.

    personification

    hyperbole

    allusion

    simile 

    300s
  • Q8

    True or False: Poetry must rhyme.

    False

    True

    300s
  • Q9

    True or False: Concrete poetry takes the shape of the subject of the poem.

    False

    True

    300s
  • Q10

    True or False: Mood is how the author feels about the topic. Tone is how the reader feels after reading.

    False

    True

    300s

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