BHS 9th Grade Poetry Test

Generation Apart
I stand in front of a mirror, next to my mother.
Years have pulled her skin and planted lines
Yet we have the same eyes—hazel and deep—
Hers see things beyond my time;
mine dream of beauty, hope, and such things.

We stand together—generation apart
I hold my mother's hands—as light as feathers—
hands that taught me how to write my words.
Now, the wrinkles tell her stories to me.

I see beyond the scarf, and the glasses,
past the fading gray of her white hair.
For a moment, I see her as a child
that grew up to be me.
What type of figurative language does the author use to describe the mother's wrinkles? 

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

"Peter Piper picked a pail of pickled peppers" is an example of:

• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Denotation
• Simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the figurative device in which two unlike things are compared, using the words "like" or "as"?

• simile
• metaphor
• allusion
• symbol

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the figurative device that gives a non-living thing human characteristics?

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A group of lines that form a division of a poem is a(n)"

• Couplet
• Stanza

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

What kind of word is this?

• Hyperbole
• Connotation
• Onomatopoeia
• None of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.K.5

True or False.
All poetry has to rhyme.

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

Language that appeals to your 5 senses

• Rhyme
• Imagery
• Imagination 
• Visual representation 

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines in a poem (ex. aabba)

• Internal Rhyme
• Repetition
• Rhyme Scheme
• Free Verse

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CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Identify the Simile below...

• The tree danced in the wind.
• She is as tall as a tree!
• That cat is the devil.
• My backpack weighs a thousand tons!

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5