1.1.9 Useful terms in poetry

Choose the correct answer.

1. What is a metaphor?
   • A way of comparing two or more things without using words like “as” or “like”.
   • A rhyme pattern where two or more lines are rhyming.
   • A way of comparing two or more things by using words like “as” or "like".

2. What is a simile?
   • A way of comparing two or more things without using words like “as” or “like”.
   • A way of comparing two or more things by using words like “as” or “like”.
   • A word’s literal meaning.

3. What is a symbol?
   • Something that has an additional meaning so that it can represent something else.
   • Something that means the same all over the world.
   • Something that determines the rhyme and rhythm in a poem.

4. What do we mean by a word’s denotation?
   • A word that is not conjugated.
   • An emotion or association a word has.
   • A word’s literal meaning.

5. What do we mean by a word’s connotation?
   • A word’s literal meaning.
   • An emotion or association a word has.
   • A word that is conjugated.