1. What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
a) No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.
b) A simile is more descriptive.
c) A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.
d) A simile must use animals in the comparison.

2. What is the word for a "play on words"?
a) pun
b) simile
c) haiku
d) metaphor

3. Which represents an example of alliteration?
a) Language Arts
b) Peter Piper Picked Peppers
c) I like music.
d) A beautiful scenery with music

4. What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
a) Personification
b) Hyperboles
c) Alliteration
d) Onomatopoeia

5. The theme is ...?
a) a plot.
b) an character
c) an address
d) the point a writer is trying to make about a subject.

6. Concentrate on these elements when writing a good poem.
a) characters, main idea, and theme
b) purpose and audience
c) theme, purpose, form, and mood.
d) rhyme and reason

7. Which is not a poetry form?
a) epic
b) tale
c) ballad
d) sonnet

8. Which is an example of a proverb?
a) Get a "stake" in our business.
b) You can't have your cake and eat it, too
c) The snow was white as cotton.
d) You're driving me crazy.

9. Which is an exaggeration?
a) Alliteration
b) Haiku
c) Hyperbole
d) Prose

10. Which of the following is not a poet?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Terry Saylor
c) Elizabeth B. Browning
d) Emily Dickinson

1. c
2. a
3. b
4. d
5. d
6. c
7. b
8. b
9. c
10. b