The document provides examples of different poetic terms and devices, including onomatopoeia, alliteration, haiku, hyperbole, and imagery. It tests the reader's understanding by presenting answer choices that could define each term and providing feedback on the correct responses.

1.  Use the following questions and click on the answer
which best completes the statement.

2. According to what you know, which of the following
best defines the term listed above?

3. Choose the best answer.
 A. Snap, Crackle, Pop
 B. Snip, Chair, Pencil
 C. Red, White , Blue
 D. See, Spot, Run

4. Correct:
A. Snap, Crackle, Pop best defines examples of
Onomatopoeia. Words that visually imitate the sound they
make.

5. WRONG:
B. Although the word, “snip,” is an example of
Onomatopoeia the other words in the series do not
imitate the sound they appear as to make.

6.  Wrong:
 C: Red, White, and Blue are simple adjectives and do
not make sound. They are visual words which in poetry
could be used to describe imagery, but NOT
Onomatopoeia.

7. D. These words are NOT examples of Onomatopoeia.
They were used in old-fashioned textbooks to teach
small children how to read.

8. EXAMPLE of a poem using Onomatopoeia
Crack an Egg
Crack an egg.
Stir the butter.
Break the yolk.
Make it flutter.
Stoke the heat.
Hear it sizzle.
Shake the salt,
just a drizzle.
Flip it over,
just like that.
Press it down.
Squeeze it flat.
Pop the toast.
Spread jam thin.
Say the word.
Breakfast's in .
by Denise Rodgers

9. According to what you know, which of the following
best defines the term listed above?

10. Choose the best answer!
 A. She walks in beauty like the night
 B. She sells seashells by the seashore
 C. She’s a lady
 D. She is like a moonlight sky

11. A. Although poetic in nature it this phrase is NOT an
example of alliteration.
Byron might be your choice to understand this phrase.

12. YES! B. Best shows an example
of alliteration- the repetition of
the initial consonant sound.
Tongue twisters are usually
good examples of this term.

14. D. Nope, Sorry.

15. According to what you know, which of the following best
defines or demonstrates the term listed above?

16. A. I can teach you how
to bottle fame, brew glory
even stopper death —Professor Snape in Harry Potter by JK
Rowling
B. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both- Robert Frost
C. Roses are red
D. Four Score and Seven Years Ago.

17. A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five,
seven, and five syllables. Haiku often reflect on some aspect of
nature, but in modern times has come to address many topics.

18. B. No Way! Try Again. Although
these lines deal with nature,
they do not follow the format of
a Haiku poem.

19. This is not correct. This is usually the beginning of a rhyme
poem learned in elementary school. It has been around for
decades.

20. D. Abe Lincoln would be proud
if you know the real, “Address,”
of this line. It is not a Haiku.

21. According to what you know, which of the following best
defines or demonstrates the term listed above?

22. A: True
B: False
Andrew Marvell’s lines here in To His Coy Mistress:
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast;
But thirty thousand to the rest …

23. A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for
emphasis is known as hyperbole.

24. B. Really? Who do you know besides Washington
Irving’s fictional character-Rip Van Winkle who
has lived 100 years to praise the beauty of a
woman?

25. http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/31-lyric-poetry.htm

26. According to what you know, which of the following best
defines the term listed above?

27. A. The ability for words in a poem to paint a picture in the reader’s mind.
B. The freedom of the poet to misuse spelling and grammar within a poem
C. The seemingly natural word pattern of similar sounds within a poem
D. Two lines with the same scheme

28. This is the definition of the term IMAGERY.

29. B. Not right. This is the
definition to the term known as
poetic license.

30. When words have similar sounds and spelling in poetry, such as,
might, night, and kite… Rhyming has occurred.

31. D. Boing, boing, bong. Wrong.
This is a brief definition of the
poetic term known as a couplet.