English 6 (Check-up Test)

There are three (3) common types of stanzas. What do you call the one that is composed of four (4) lines?

• couplet

• tercet

• quatrain

• triplet

Figures of speech or figurative language are writings that are not meant to be taken literally. Which among the following is NOT an example of a figurative language?

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Imagery

• Simile

The _____ is the central or main idea of a poem. It can be love, life, death or youth.

In writing essays, the content is divided into paragraphs. What do we call the "paragraphs" in poems?

• Line

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanza

• Tone

Which among the following lines show rhyme?

• I was tired

  but I need to strive.

• You are the best thing,

  That's ever been mine.

• I used to think I was smart,

  But you made me look so naive.

• 'Cause this angel has flown away from me,

  Leaving me in drunken misery.

______ is an example of a sound device. It is the repeated use of a sound, word or phrase.

Alliteration is the repetition of the _________ sounds at the beginnings of words.​

Which of the following are elements of a poem? Choose the three (3) correct answers.

• consonance

• line

• metaphor

• stanza

• mood

Simile means to compare two unlike things with the use of these two words, what are these words?

• same and as

• like and as

• same and but

• like and but

This is a figurative language wherein the poet gives human attributes to something that is unhuman.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Imagery