Poetry Practice Test

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

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 29

• 36

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

• ABAB

• ABCD

• ABBB

• BACD

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

"The voice of salt in the desert" is an example of what poetic device?

• onomatopoeia
• personification
• alliteration
• simile

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

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

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

• metaphor
• simile
• analogy
• pun

In this poem, light is a symbol for:

• life
• song
• creation
• God

What is the tone?

• The author is in awe of salt.
• Salt stinks.
• Neutral
• In life, appreciate the small things.

The author's words help the reader determine the tone. What is this called?

• word choice/diction
• point-of-view
• author's purpose
• imagery