Introduction to Poetry
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- In this lesson, we will learn about the key components of poetry, such as figurative language. We will look at examples of simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia and personification.
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8 Questions
Q1.
What does a poem normally express?
Facts and statistics.
Correct answer: Thoughts and feelings.
Thoughts and feelings.
Q2.
What is the definition of figurative language?
Language that belongs to another culture.
Language that includes facts and statistics.
Correct answer: Language that is used to create powerful pictures in our minds.
Language that is used to create powerful pictures in our minds.
Language that we use all the time in our everyday speech.
Q3.
Which of these is the definition of metaphor?
A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.
A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Correct answer: A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.
A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.
Words that sound like the noise they describe.
Q4.
Which of these is the definition of simile?
A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.
Correct answer: A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.
Words that sound like the noise they describe.
Q5.
Which of these is the definition of personification?
Correct answer: A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.
A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.
A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.
Words that sound like the noise they describe.
Q6.
Which of these is the definition of onomatopoeia?
A figure of speech giving human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.
A figure of speech where one thing is compared to another using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
A figure of speech where something is described as being something else or as something that it can’t be.
Correct answer: Words that sound like the noise they describe.
Words that sound like the noise they describe.
Q7.
How long do we think poems have existed?
Correct answer: Almost as long as humans have existed.
Almost as long as humans have existed.
Fifteen hundred years.
Four hundred years.
Nine years.
Q8.
Which of these are forms (types) of poetry?
Leaflets, advertisements and posters.
Letters, speeches and newspaper articles.
Correct answer: Sonnets, lyrics, ballads, haikus and odes.
Sonnets, lyrics, ballads, haikus and odes.