WorksheetsPoetry Pre-Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the structure of poetry?
a)
sentences and paragraphs
b)
lines and stanzas
c)
letters and numbers
d)
rainbows and unicorns
2.
Writing that is not in poetry form is called what?
a)
bros
b)
goes
c)
throws
d)
prose
3.
Poetry uses _________ devices like rhythm and rhyme.
a)
sight
b)
smell
c)
touch
d)
sound
4.
What is the narrator of a poem called?
a)
rhythm
b)
rhyme
c)
speaker
d)
author
5.
True or False: All poems must rhyme.
a)
true
b)
false
6.
What is rhyme?
a)
repetition of a letter
b)
repetition of an ending sound
c)
comparing two things using like or as
7.
What is meter?
a)
words that sound the same
b)
sophisticated vocabulary
c)
pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
d)
length of the poem
8.
Rhythm gives poetry a __________ quality.
a)
musical
b)
old-fashioned
c)
important
d)
difficult
9.
What is alliteration?
a)
using synonyms
b)
words that sound like their meaning
c)
exagerrating
d)
repetition of initial consonant sound
10.
What is a refrain?
a)
a line that is REpeated
b)
the last line of a poem
11.
What is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
12.
What is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
13.
What is assigning human qualities to a non-living thing?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
PERSONification
d)
hyperbole
14.
What is extreme exaggeration?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
15.
Which sound device is used here: Whose woods these are I think I know/ His house is in the village though/ He will not see me stopping here/ To watch his woods fill up with snow. (Hint: Read it out loud to hear the sound device)
a)
rhyme
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
refrain
16.
Which sound device is used:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
a)
refrain
b)
meter
c)
rhyme
17.
What sound device is used in these:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life
a)
alliteration
b)
rhyme
c)
personification
18.
Bonus: Who is a famous English Renaissance poet?
a)
Edgar Allan Poe
b)
Kid President
c)
William Shakespeare
d)
Aesop
19.
Bonus: Who is an American poet who kept all (most) of her poetry hidden in her room until after she died.
a)
Martha Washington
b)
Betsy Ross
c)
Eleanor Roosevelt
d)
Emily Dickinson
20.
Bonus: Finish this famous line of poetry--
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a __________
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a __________
a)
tree
b)
teacher
c)
Chromebook
d)
do-re-mi
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