Poetry Review

Multiple Choice

Hyperbole is..

• An exaggerated comparison for effect.
• Compares something using like or as 
• The use of words to imitate the sounds they make.

Multiple Choice

The first letter of each line is written down the page, and spells out the subject of the poem

• cinquain

• quatrain

• acrostic

• free verse

Multiple Choice

This three line poem has 17 syllables.

5 on the first line

7 on the second

5 on the last line

and is usually about nature

• free verse

• concrete poem

• senryu

• haiku

Multiple Choice

in a diamante, the poem is written in a diamond shape, has 7 lines, and

• rhymes

• does not rhyme

Multiple Choice

Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme

3 and 4 rhyme

Line 5 refers to line 1

• limerick

• senryu

• haiku

• cinquain

Multiple Choice

Written in five lines, and does not rhyme. Pattern of syllables goes

2

4

6

8

2

• quatrain

• traditional cinquain

• senryu

• haiku

Multiple Choice

What is the rhyming pattern of this poem?

I love noodles.  Give me oodles.

Make a mound up to the sun.

Noodles are my favorite foodles.

I eat noodles by the ton.

• AABB

• ABCA

• ABAB

• ABBA

Multiple Choice

_________ is the feeling the reader gets as he/she reads the text.

• mood

• tone

Multiple Choice

Poets may use sounds devices to make a poem more vivid or to create a tone or mood. _________________ is the repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words or syllables.

• Consonance

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopeia

Multiple Choice

Poets use _______________________ to write about an idea, an object, or an animal as if it were human.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Multiple Choice

______________ uses like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• idiom

Multiple Choice

Poets use _______________, or language that appeals to the senses, to help readers visualize what they read.

• Imagery

• Figurative Language

• Similie

• Metaphor

Multiple Choice

_________________ uses words that imitate or suggest the sound of what they describe, such as hiss and thud.

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Assonance

• onomatopeia

Multiple Choice

a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, gives a line of poetry a predictable ___________________, or pattern of beats.

• Graphic Elements

• Rhyme

• Rhythm

• meter

Multiple Choice

A group of lines is called a _______________________.

• lines

• paragraphs

• sentences

• Stanzas

The Cowboy Wind

In the city he'll pick his favorite trick-

he careens around corners and twirls.

Roping loose items,

he'll juggle and fly them,

then dump them at last in long swirls

But that cowboy wind is a changeable wind.

When a breeze, he rides quietly by,

lifting each kite

gently up to the light

and sailing it clear to the sky

Multiple Choice

To what does the poet compare the wind in stanza 1?

• the horse's hoofs

• the cowboy riding

• a lion's roar

Multiple Select

What words in stanza 2 describe how the wind and cowboy sound?

• out on the range

• whistles and moans in a room

• rattle the pans

• sweep through the yard like a broom

Multiple Choice

The poet uses the imagery in stanza 3 to help the reader visualize-

• how cowboys juggle their responsibilities

• the wind is powerful and untamed

• how the light fills the sky

• the dangers of riding a horse in the wind

Multiple Choice

What words in lines 8-10 tells you it is a similie?

• knock over the cans

• His voice isn't strange out on the range

• sweep through the yard like a broom

• but he whistles and moans in a room

Multiple Choice

Caleb had to read a Dr. Seuss book to the kindergarten class. He noticed that each line had a _________. "I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam, I am".

• rhyme

• free verse

• repetition

• narrative

Multiple Choice

Raniya and Akeavia created a ________ poem about penguins that did not have any rhymes.

• repetition

• free verse

• rhyme

• narrative

Multiple Choice

Ariana liked the _________ of the song that had the same line over and over.

• free verse

• repetition

• rhyme

• narrative