Poetry Terms Practice
By Deborah Ginman
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15 Questions
Figurative language is a tool that authors use, especially poets, to help readers visualize and think about something in a different way. It is not meant to be taken literally, but usually is used to bring up some idea, feeling, or image in a reader's mind. See if you can identify some of these examples of figurative language from a variety of poems, and the other poetic tools or devices that many poets use.
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"The cup danced joyfully across the table." This line has an example of which type of figurative language?
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"Pink and purple popsicles" This line uses what type of figurative language?
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"Cathy is as cute as a kitten." This line uses what form of figurative language?
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"The city was a jungle" This line uses what form of figurative language?
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"His heart was a block of ice" This line uses what form of figurative language.
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"It took Thomas a million years to finish his homework." This line has uses what form of figurative language?
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"The lucky lady led the way." This line uses what kind of figurative language?
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What consonant letter sound is repeated in the line: "The lucky lady led the way"
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Dreams
Langston Hughes, 1902 - 1967
Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.What is the MOOD you think the author wants us to feel reading this first stanza of the poem "Dreams"? (Notice how he describes unfulfilled dreams)
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When the writer writes that the safety pin is "sleeping on its side quietly" when it's closed, what figurative language is the writer using?
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This detail that compares an open safety pin to the tail of a thin shrimp is a type of figurative language called what?
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What can these splinters and tacks symbolize?
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What's a possible theme (statement) for this poem?
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"Teacher, preacher" has a repeating long e vowel sound. This is an example of what type of figurative language?
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What does this "voice" symbolize or represent?