A comparison between two things using like, as or than.

Which of the following is an example of anaphora?

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...

How do you define imagery?

Writing using some or all of the five senses.

Which of the following is alliteration?

I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.

Choose the correct example of personification.

She shivered in the cold, her branches shaking wildly.

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1
What is enjambment?
Run-on lines in poetry.
Breaks in the middle of lines of poetry.
Punctuation at the end of lines in poetry.
When words get jammed up in a line of poetry.
2
Which type of music relies on the internal vowel rhymes of assonance?
Rap
The Wiggles Greatest Hits
Disney Princess soundtracks
Country music
3
Hyperbole is ...
A poem with five 4-line stanzas and a final rhyming couplet.
Exaggeration for effect.
A poem written in the adventure genre.
The very end of the poem, known as the "bole".
4
What is a poem?
A literary genre written in lines and stanzas.
A piece of writing created for its sound, beauty and meaning
An echo, asking a shadow to dance.
All of the above.
5
Do poems have to rhyme?
Maybe
No
Yes
Sometimes
6
What is a simile?
A comparison between two things using like, as or than.
A description of things that make the responder smile.
The same as a metaphor.
An element on the periodic table.
7
Which of the following is an example of anaphora?
"Oh, hello," he said. "Hello!" I screamed.
She dreamed. The night was very, very cold.
She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ...
8
How do you define imagery?
A visual literacy term now used in creative writing.
A picture of a scene.
The picture formed in a reader's mind.
Writing using some or all of the five senses.
9
What is juxtaposition?
Two ideas side by side in a text.
A comparison of opposites.
The only technique used by Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
The position of rhyme at the end of lines.
10
With which accent should you pronounce enjambment?
French
New Zealand
American
Australian
11
How does a poet create a image?
All of the above.
By using figurative language.
By telling a story.
With imagery
12
Which of the following is alliteration?
There were two cars, on their way to Mars.
Eight ecstatic elephants ate eggs all day.
The cat sat on the mat: drat.
I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.
13
How can a poet appeal directly to a reader?
All of the above.
Write creatively using a range of techniques and structures.
Use second-person perspective.
Write about big issues in life.
14
Choose the correct example of personification.
She shivered in the cold, her branches shaking wildly.
The dog licked its chops.
The boy raced to school like a formula one car.
The person pranced in a pretty circle.
15
Which of these examples is a metaphor?
1, 2 and 3
My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.
Baby, you're a firework...
All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players

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