Poetry Practice Test

Poetry Practice Test

8th Grade

14 Qs

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Poetry Practice Test

Poetry Practice Test

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English

8th Grade

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Created by

Madeline Gould

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14 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

How many stanzas are in the poem "Ode to Salt"?

1

2

3

29

36

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

How would you label the rhyme scheme in the first four lines of "Ode to Salt"?

ABAB

ABCD

ABBB

BACD

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Which poetic device is used here in the opening lines of the "Ode to Salt"?: "This salt in the salt cellar I once saw in the salt mines."

onomatopoeia

personification

alliteration

simile

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

"The voice of salt in the desert" is an example of what poetic device?
onomatopoeia
personification
alliteration
simile

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

What poetic device is used here: "taste imparts to every seasoned dish your ocean essence; the smallest, miniature wave from the salt cellar reveals to us more than domestic whiteness; in it, we taste infinitude."
theme
imagery
irony
satirical meaning

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

Which poetic device is used three times here: "discoverer on the high seas, (1) earliest sailor of the unknown, (2) shifting byways of the foam. (3) Dust of the sea"
simile
metaphor
personification
satirical meaning

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

If the poet had said, "salt is like the discoverer of the high seas", what poetic device would it be?
metaphor
simile
analogy
pun

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