Poetry Quiz

What is a line?

• a group of lines within a poem
• random words throughout a poem
• a row of words in a poem

Personification gives non-living objects human like qualities.

• True

• False

What are the red letters an example of?
The people along the sand (A)
All turn and look one way. (B)
They turn their back on the land. (A)
They look at the sea all day. (B)
As long as it takes to pass (C)
A ship keeps raising its hull; (C)
The wetter ground like glass (D)
Reflects a standing gull. (D)

• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Rhyme scheme
• Alliteration

What does the sentence below show? 
The cloud was fluffy like cotton candy.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Refrain
• Onomatopoeia

What does the sentence below show? 
She is a shining star in her class.

• Idiom
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Simile

What do the red words show? 
While I nodded, nearly
napping, suddenly there
came a tapping...

• Personification 
• Alliteration 
• Repetition
• Refrain 

The theme of the poem is

• the message

• what it is mostly about

• an inference

A person who writes a poem is called a

• Author

• Poet

• Illustrator

• Writer

Read the sentence and answer the question that follows: 
The autumn leaves were falling like a blanket of snow in the winter. 
From the sentence, the reader can tell that- 

• It was snowing heavily
• There were leaves covering the ground
• Very few leaves had fallen
• None of the above

Read the poem below and answer the question that follows.
If only I had practiced more, 
maybe we would have won the game.
If only I had realized how important it was, 
we would be holding that trophy now.
If only I had given it my all, 
I wouldn't have let you down. 
What is emphasized by the repetition of the words "if only" in the poem?

• the regret the speaker has about not doing his best
• how proud the coach is of the team, even though they lost
• the speaker's reason for not practicing more
• how much he wishes he had a trophy