Introduction to Poetry
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Key learning points
- 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.
Q2.
What is the definition of figurative language?
Language that belongs to another culture.
Language that includes facts and statistics.
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’.
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.
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?
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.
Q7.
How long do we think poems 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.