Poetry Unit Pre-Test

What structure is poetry written in?

• Sentences & paragraphs
• Sentences & stanzas
• Lines & paragraphs
• Lines & stanzas

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Poetry uses ____ devices like rhythm and rhyme.

• Sound

• Sight

• Taste

• Touch

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Author
• Speaker
• Narrator
• Main character

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is "alliteration" ?

• The use of synonyms.
• Words that sound alike.
• An exaggeration.
• The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyberbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?

• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration? 

• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

• Refrain
• Rhyme
• Meter
• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is "onomatopoeia" ?

• An exaggeration
• Sound words
• Rhyming words
• A form of imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3