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WorksheetsMidterm Review - English III
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The snow danced around in the wind.
a)
Personification
b)
Metaphor
c)
Pun
d)
Alliteration
2.
What is a stanza?
a)
A line
b)
A grouping of lines
c)
A poem
d)
A title
3.
This is a ...
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
rhyme
d)
homophone
4.
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
5.
Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration?
a)
Metaphor
b)
Alliteration
c)
Personification
d)
Hyperbole
6.
What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem:
Oh how I love thee
let me count the ways
i hope you'll be a part of me
until my dying days.
My trust in you is deep
That I can't deny
A love beyond space and time
You are my star in a night sky.
Oh how I love thee
let me count the ways
i hope you'll be a part of me
until my dying days.
My trust in you is deep
That I can't deny
A love beyond space and time
You are my star in a night sky.
a)
abab cdcd
b)
abab accc
c)
abab cddd
d)
abcc deff
7.
A group of two or more lines that form a unit.
a)
Couplet
b)
Stanza
c)
Quatrain
d)
Cinquain
8.
The attitude a poet takes toward their subject
a)
Mood
b)
Tone
c)
Refrain
d)
Allusion
9.
Poetry with no rhyme spoken like every day language
a)
Imagery
b)
Haiku
c)
Limerick
d)
Free Verse
10.
A literary device that makes reference to something that is familiar
a)
Allusion
b)
Apostrophe
c)
Personification
d)
Idiom
11.
Something concrete that represents something abstract
a)
Allusion
b)
Symbol
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
Alliteration
12.
Sentence structure and arrangement of words
a)
Diction
b)
Tone
c)
Syntax
d)
Foot
13.
The writer's choice of words
a)
Syntax
b)
Diction
c)
Rhyme Scheme
d)
Refrain
14.
Lines whose last words sound alike
a)
End Rhyme
b)
Internal Rhyme
c)
Exact Rhyme
d)
Approximate Rhyme
15.
Lines that have words in them that sound alike
a)
End Rhyme
b)
Internal Rhyme
c)
Exact Rhyme
d)
Approximate Rhyme
16.
Choose the correct example of a similie.
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.
17.
Diana can sing, but she is no Mariah Carey is an example of:
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Allusion
d)
Personification
18.
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
19.
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
20.
Who was a famous poet in Harlem during the 1920's and 1930's?
a)
Monet
b)
Leonardo da Vinci
c)
Michaleango
d)
Langston Hughes
21.
Writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule.
a)
Structure
b)
Satire
c)
Pun
d)
Antithesis
22.
An implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or entire poem.
a)
Eye Rhyme
b)
Extended Metaphor
c)
Synecdoche
d)
Metaphor
23.
The mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author.
a)
Oxymoron
b)
Sestet
c)
style
d)
Pun
24.
The continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next.
a)
Mixed Metaphor
b)
Understatement
c)
Euphony
d)
Enjambment
25.
What element of persuasion is the ad using?
a)
Ethos
b)
Pathos
c)
Logos
d)
Legos
26.
A slow-moving and stately poem usually indicates a tone that is
a)
teasing
b)
lighthearted
c)
serious
d)
mocking
27.
When a character says one thing but means something else, the character is using
a)
situational irony
b)
dramatic irony
c)
verbal irony
d)
comic irony
28.
The narrator and the writer
a)
are always the same
b)
are not necessarily the same
c)
are never the same
d)
present different points of view in each story
29.
The central idea of a story is called its
a)
theme
b)
purpose
c)
subject
d)
conflict
30.
"In 25 years of driving the same route, I haven't seen a single deer."
a)
Ethos
b)
Pathos
c)
Logos
31.
"You'll make the right decision because you have something that not many people do: you have heart."
a)
Ethos
b)
Pathos
c)
Logos
32.
Choose the correct present tense verb that fills in the blank:
Neither of John's dogs ______ on the couch.
Neither of John's dogs ______ on the couch.
a)
is jumping
b)
jumped
c)
jump
d)
jumps
33.
Choose the correct present tense verb that fills in the blank:
The players nor the coach _____ happy with the result of last week's game.
The players nor the coach _____ happy with the result of last week's game.
a)
are
b)
is
c)
was
d)
were
34.
Fill in the blank with the present tense form of the verb.
To be: Donuts or a giftcard ____ a nice surprise.
To be: Donuts or a giftcard ____ a nice surprise.
a)
is
b)
are
c)
be
d)
will be
35.
Fill in the blank with the present tense form of the verb.
To run: Ms. Jackson and her sons _____ an arcade in the mall.
To run: Ms. Jackson and her sons _____ an arcade in the mall.
a)
will run
b)
ran
c)
are running
d)
run
36.
Which of the following is a hyperbole?
a)
She is as pretty as a flower.
b)
She is the prettiest woman in the entire universe.
c)
She is a beautiful flower.
d)
She is very pretty.
37.
Look at the sentence. What type of figurative language did they use?
Kae was so bored he was pulling his hair out!
Kae was so bored he was pulling his hair out!
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
alliteration
d)
hyperbole
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