Literary (Poetic) Terms Quiz

What type of literary device is shown?

Darcy daringly dove down the deep ditch.

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What type of literary device is shown?

The run down house looked depressed.

• personification

• idiom

• alliteration

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is metaphor?

• exaggeration for effect

• a comparison of unlike things without using like or as

• a comparison of unlike things using like or as

• repeition of intial consonant sound

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is onomatopoeia?

• a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

• use of words that imitate sounds

• repetition of sounds at the end of words

• a word, phrase, line or group of lines that is repeated regularly

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Figurative Language: Choose the metaphor.

• The sky is low, the clouds are mean

• Down in their cabins, the sailors are sheep

• The stormy seas as dark as coal

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Choose the example that includes alliteration.

• Silent as a shadow, the boy crossed the reef.

• The boy stood taut as a drawn arrow.

• The mutter of the sea.

• The little boy gasped when he touched the cold water.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

We can't find the cat,

We don't know where she's at,

Oh, where did she go?

Does anyone know?

Let's ask this walking hat.

• abbba

• aabba

• ababa

• babab

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

How many syllables does this line have?

A gash, a rash, and purple bumps.

• 8 syllables

• 9 syllables

• 7 syllables

• 5 syllables

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RF.2.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Roses are red,

Violets are blue.

I wish you could see

How much I love you!

What sound device is indicated by the highlighted words?

• meter

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of vowel sounds

Ex: Great/Late

• assonance

• diction

• prose

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4