Poetry Test

If I go to soccer practice without my soccer ball one more time, my coach is going to make me run a million laps around the field.

This is an example of a/an:

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

My brother looked so shocked he couldn't speak. I asked him, "What cat got your tongue?"

This is an example of a/an:

• Idiom

• Rhyme

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

"The shimmering sun shone so brightly it practically blinded me."

This is an example of a/an:

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

• Allusion

""We walked up to the haunted house and I jumped out of my skin when the gate slammed closed behind me."

This is an example of a/an:

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Simile

"I saw a little hermit crab

His coloring was oh so drab"

This is an example of a/an:

• Allusion

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

" What a night! The wind howls, hisses, and but stops."

This is an example of a/an:

• Allusion

• Rhyme

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Answer questions based on the poem “In the Woods” by Ann Raphael

stepping carefully

following a small path

in the woods

crunching the leaves

collapsing small wooden tents 5

tents

breaking into a flat plane

little pockets of air

trodging

in my new name for the read 10

steady walk

to the clearing

in pure places

man has kept his business out of

to come upon 15

the glowing circle

in which

i stand waiting for myself

What does the word “trodging” in line 9 most likely mean?

• Laughing

• Speaking

• Falling

• Walking

Answer questions based on the poem “In the Woods” by Ann Raphael

stepping carefully

following a small path

in the woods

crunching the leaves

collapsing small wooden tents 5

tents

breaking into a flat plane

little pockets of air

trodging

in my new name for the read 10

steady walk

to the clearing

in pure places

man has kept his business out of

to come upon 15

the glowing circle

in which

i stand waiting for myself

In line 13 of the poem, the phrase "pure places" is an example of a/n:

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

Answer questions based on the poem “In the Woods” by Ann Raphael

stepping carefully

following a small path

in the woods

crunching the leaves

collapsing small wooden tents 5

tents

breaking into a flat plane

little pockets of air

trodging

in my new name for the read 10

steady walk

to the clearing

in pure places

man has kept his business out of

to come upon 15

the glowing circle

in which

i stand waiting for myself

In line 4 of the poem, the phrase, "crunching the leaves" is an example of a/an:

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

Answer questions based on the poem “In the Woods” by Ann Raphael

stepping carefully

following a small path

in the woods

crunching the leaves

collapsing small wooden tents 5

tents

breaking into a flat plane

little pockets of air

trodging

in my new name for the read 10

steady walk

to the clearing

in pure places

man has kept his business out of

to come upon 15

the glowing circle

in which

i stand waiting for myself

The author included this in line 4 "crunching the leaves" to appeal to the reader's sense of:

• Sight

• Smell

• Hearing

• Emotion