A Poet's Toolbox Quiz
11 Questions
| Total Attempts: 58
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Questions and Answers
- 1.This occurs when a poet uses a sequence of words that have the same vowel sound. Example: "Strips of tinfoil winking like people" (Sylvia Plath, "The Bee Meeting")
- A.
Repetition
- B.
Assonance
- C.
Onomatopoeia
- 2.When a poet repeats words or phrases to create a rhythm or set a mood. Example: The water dripped, dripped, dripped from the leaky faucet.
- A.
Assonance
- B.
Rhythm
- C.
Repetition
- 3.When the poet chooses words whose sounds make you think of their meanings. Example: meow, woof, zap, bang, pow, buzz, thump, quack, yuck, boom, beep
- A.
Onomatopoeia
- B.
Consonance
- C.
Aliteration
- 4.When a poet uses words that rhyme at the ends of two or more lines of poetry. Example: The girl walked down the street She was looking for something to eat.
- A.
Repetition
- B.
Consonance
- C.
End Rhyme
- 5.When a poet uses words that have the same consonant sound anywhere whithin the words. Example: 'First and last,' 'odds and ends,' 'short and sweet,' 'a stroke of luck,' or Shakespeare's 'struts and frets'
- A.
Repetition
- B.
Consonance
- C.
End Rhyme
- 6.This occurs when the poet uses a sequence of words that begin with the same letter or consonant sound. Example: The slithery snake sneaked stealthily.
- A.
Aliteration
- B.
Consonance
- C.
Onomatopoeia
- 7.The way a poem moves from one idea to the next. In many poems (but not all), words are arranged in patterns of accented and unaccented syllables. Example: Roses are red Violets are blue
- A.
Rhythm
- B.
Repetition
- C.
Assonance
- 8.This compares one thing to something unlike it using like or as. Example: Coat hooks hold winter hats like bare branches hold old nexts.
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Simile
- C.
Personification
- 9.This makes a comparison in which something not human is described with human qualities. Example: My eggs stared back like sick eyes.
- A.
Simile
- B.
Hyperbole
- C.
Personification
- 10.This makes a comparison without using like or as. Example: The street is my heart.
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Simile
- C.
Personification
- 11.This makes exaggerated comparisons for effect. Sometimes these are funny. Example: It was so hot we fried.
- A.
Personification
- B.
Hyperbole
- C.
Metaphor
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