Poetry - Quiz

1.

What does a poem always do?

2.

Why did people in the past use poems to tell stories?

3.

What is Haiku?

4.

What does a narrative poem do?

5.

What is poetry that uses made-up words to describe things, or just to make nice sounds called?

6.

What is a rhyme?

7.

Which of these phrases contains alliteration?

8.

If you say one thing as "like" another, you are using a ...?

9.

When are you using a metaphor?

10.

Which of the following rhymes with 'bitten'?

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