stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
LA Exam Prep - Poetry Analysis and Figurative Language Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
LA Exam Prep - Poetry Analysis and Figurative Language
LA Exam Prep - Poetry Analysis and Figurative Language
26 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
131 plays
8th grade Language Arts Review of poetry and figurative language
Flashcards
26 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
26
Answers
1
What is poetry?
long sentences that rhyme and are grouped in stanzas
Words that relate to one another
a genre of literature that may rhyme, short phrases, and fun
2
What does the word
lair
mean?
an open place
a resting or sleeping place
an eating or growing place
3
What is end rhyme?
no rhyming
rhyming at the end of a line of poetry
rhyming at the beginning of a line of poetry
rhyming at the middle of a line of poetry
4
Without the slightest tinge of gold, The city shivered in the cold...
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
5
What is personification?
extreme exaggeration
comparison without using like or as
comparison using like or as
giving non living things human traits
6
My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;
alliteration
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
7
What is alliteration?
comparison using like or as
same sound at the end of words
same sound at beginning of words in a row
comparison without using like or as
8
Why did the poet say the caterpillar is like soft sculpture?
it is still
it is pleasing to look at
it looks like christmas
9
Gracefully she sat down sideways, / With a simper smile
metaphor
alliteration
simile
personification
10
Drip-hiss-drip-hiss- fall the raindrops.
alliteration
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
11
What is a quatrain?
2 lines that rhyme in a poem
a group of lines in a poem
4 lines that rhyme in a poem
12
Your eyes are a shadowy seaIn the starry darkness of night.
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
personification
13
What is a stanza?
4 lines that rhyme in a poem
words that repeat
2 lines that rhyme in a poem
a group of lines in a poem
14
Why does the writer say love is “like an ocean”?
Oceans are very big
Oceans change
Oceans are salt water
15
What is figurative language?
Language that doesn't literally mean what it says
Words that relate to one another
Words that rhyme
16
What is the silken home?
the caterpillar
the chrysalis
the tree
17
What is imagery?
comparison without using like or as
comparison using like or as
language appeals to senses
sound words
18
This is the hardest question that anyone has ever had to answer.
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
alliteration
19
What is a couplet?
2 lines that rhyme in a poem
4 lines that rhyme in a poem
a group of lines in a poem
20
When the stooping sky / Leans down upon the hills
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
personification
21
What is a metaphor?
comparison using like or as
comparison without using like or as
sound words
extreme exaggeration
22
The tear-drop trickled to his chin: / There was a meaning in her grin
rhyme
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
23
When they found him dead, His hand was cold as lead.
personification
metaphor
hyperbole
simile
24
Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
simile
alliteration
metaphor
hyperbole
25
What is the
mood
of this poem? How does it make you feel?
calm, peaceful
excited, anxious
sad, depressed
26
What is a hyperbole?
comparison without using like or as
extreme exaggeration
comparison using like or as
same sound at the beginning
