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WorksheetsUnit 4 - Poetry Vocabulary
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 31mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
"The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky" is an example of ...
a)
personification
b)
simile
c)
metaphor
2.
"This house is as clean as a whistle" is an example of...
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
analogy
3.
What is the narrator of a poem called?
a)
Author
b)
Speaker
c)
Narrator
d)
Main character
4.
Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.
a)
Musical
b)
Old-fashioned
c)
Important
d)
Difficult
5.
True or False: All poems must rhyme.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Alliteration
d)
Hyberbole
7.
What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Alliteration
c)
Metaphor
d)
Simile
8.
What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Personification
c)
Alliteration
d)
Idiom
9.
Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration?
a)
Metaphor
b)
Alliteration
c)
Personification
d)
Hyperbole
10.
language not meant to be taken literally
a)
figurative langauge
b)
denotation
c)
fancy langauge
d)
assonance
11.
the literal dictionary definition of a word
a)
denotation
b)
connotation
c)
repetition
d)
dictionary
12.
the ideas and feelings associated with a word (positive, negative, or neutral)
a)
imagery
b)
metaphor
c)
connotation
d)
denotation
13.
a poem that does NOT follow a regular rhyme scheme or rhythm
a)
free verse
b)
rhyming
c)
haiku
d)
formal
14.
the author's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of the poem
a)
tone
b)
mood
c)
simile
d)
theme
15.
an underlying message about life or human nature that a writer wants the reader to understand
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
theme
d)
pun
16.
the voice that is talking to us in a poem
a)
author
b)
speaker
c)
poet
d)
audience
17.
when a word, phrase, or line is repeated within the text in close proximity
a)
rhyme
b)
repetition
c)
simile
d)
diction
18.
Choose the correct example of a simile.
a)
I am a city child.
b)
We honor you.
c)
I am the timid daughter who can rage only on paper.
d)
She rises against the sun like a skyscraper.
19.
What is the type of literature where words are carefully chosen to create a certain effect?
a)
genre
b)
poetry
c)
rhyme scheme
d)
metaphor
20.
A repeating cadence/meter that enriches or emphasizes words, phrases, lines, and even whole verses of poems. Alliteration is a type of repetition.
a)
Rhyme
b)
Stanza
c)
Repetition
d)
Pattern of Verse
21.
What is figurative language?
a)
Language that is meant to be taken literally
b)
Comparing 2 unlike things
c)
Comparing 2 things using like or as
d)
Language that is not meant to be taken literally
22.
"The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow" is an example of ...
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
23.
exaggeration, overstatement
a)
alliteration
b)
hyperbole
c)
imagery
24.
"It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets" is an example of ...
a)
hyperbole
b)
simile
c)
metaphor
25.
Poems are arranged in lines. Lines can be ___________.
a)
A single word
b)
A sentence
c)
A part of sentence
d)
All of the above
26.
What is "onomatopoeia" ?
a)
An exaggeration
b)
Sound words
c)
Rhyming words
d)
A form of imagery
27.
What device is used here:
"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)
Rhyme
c)
Meter
d)
Simile
28.
What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life
a)
Personification
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Alliteration
d)
Rhyme
29.
What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Personification
c)
Alliteration
d)
Idiom
30.
What is "alliteration" ?
a)
The use of synonyms.
b)
Words that sound alike.
c)
An exaggeration.
d)
The repetition of a beginning letter sound.
31.
Define "rhyme."
a)
Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
b)
The repetition of a letter.
c)
The repetition of an ending sound.
32.
Poetry uses ____ devices like rhythm and rhyme.
a)
Sound
b)
Sight
c)
Taste
d)
Touch
33.
What structure is poetry written in?
a)
Sentences & paragraphs
b)
Sentences & stanzas
c)
Lines & paragraphs
d)
Lines & stanzas
34.
What is an example of an onomatopoeia?
a)
That test was a piece of cake!
b)
Boom! Bang!
c)
It's raining cats and dogs.
d)
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
35.
Repetition is ______
a)
extreme exaggeration
b)
repeating a word
c)
repetition of vowels
d)
repetition of the initial consonant
36.
Denotation is a word's ____________.
a)
Literal dictionary definition
b)
Emotional meaning
c)
synonym
d)
antonym
37.
Connotation is a word's ___________.
a)
synonym
b)
emotional meaning
c)
antonym
d)
Literal, dictionary definition.
38.
Haiku poems have how many lines?
a)
5
b)
3
c)
10
d)
none
39.
Haiku originated in what country?
a)
Japan
b)
USA
c)
Alaska
d)
Russia
40.
Which is an example of alliteration?
a)
The snow is like cotton
b)
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickles
c)
She is as fast as a cheetah
d)
nothing
41.
This type of poetry is very popular. It does not rhyme. It does not have set amount of lines (like a Haiku). It also has it's own rhythm. What do you think this type of poetry is called?
a)
Haiku
b)
Cinquain
c)
Free Verse
d)
Accrostic
42.
Which of these are a lyric poem?
a)
Sonnet
b)
Haiku
c)
All
d)
Free Verse
43.
What's a Haiku?
a)
A poem with an irregular meter and rhythm
b)
A poem that creates a shape based on the rhythms and meaning
c)
An unrhymed lyric poem that focuses on images from nature
d)
A songlike narrative
44.
What type of poem starts with,
"There once was a ......"
"There once was a ......"
a)
haiku
b)
limerick
c)
cuatrain
45.
A haiku has how many syllables in each line?
a)
7,5,7
b)
5,5,5
c)
5,7,5
d)
5,5,5
46.
A ___________ teaches a lesson.
a)
poet
b)
theme
c)
rhyme scheme
47.
___________ language creates images that appeal to one or more of the five senses.
a)
Sensory
b)
Figurative
48.
A _____________ poem is shaped to look like its subject.
a)
Haiku
b)
Concrete
c)
Limerick
d)
Lyric
49.
A _____________ poem is a humorous, rhyming five-line poem with a specific rhythm and pattern of rhyme.
a)
narrative
b)
concrete
c)
haiku
d)
limerick
50.
A ______________ poem tells a story in verse. This type of poem has elements similar to those in short stories.
a)
narrative
b)
concrete
c)
haiku
d)
free verse
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