1. Review for Poetry Test! 2015

2. What do Narrative poems have that other poems don’t have?

3. Answer: Characters and a plot

4. Q: What does free verse mean?

5. A: The poem does not have a rhyme scheme

6. Q: What is personification?

7. A: Gives non-human objects human characteristics

8. Q: The flowers danced in the wind Is an example of what type of figurative language?

9. A: Personification

10. Q: I was as lonely as a single cloud. Is an example of what figurative language?

11. A: Simile

12. Q: I ain’t going to go. Is example of what literary device?

13. A: Dialect

14. Q: What is Alliteration?

15. A: The same sound is repeated in a sentence.

16. Q: Life is a broken winged bird is an example of?

17. A: Metaphor

18. Q: The light blue flowers grew in the green field. What is this an example of?

19. A: Imagery – look for the 5 sense in a sentence.

20. Q: What does a sonnet end with?

21. A: A couplet

22. Q: What is historical context?

23. A: When the reader would have to know something that took place in history to understand the poem

24. Q: Why would a poet use repetition?

25. A: The want to emphasize something in the poem and do not want the reader to miss it.

26. Q: How do you know if a poem is written in first person?

27. A: It uses I, Me, Us.

28. Q: What is genre

29. A: A category of artistic composition, as in music, literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.

30. Q: What is Prose?

31. A: Written or spoken word in its ordinary form without metrical structure or verse.

32. Q: What is hyperbole?

33. A: exaggeration used for effect

34. A: What is extended metaphor?

35. A: compares two essentially unlike things at some length and in different ways.

36. Q: What is Epic

37. A: A long narrative poem on a serious subject and addresses universal; concerns such as good/evil, life/death, sin/redemption