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WorksheetsPoetry
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the figurative device that gives a non-living thing human characteristics?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
2.
What is the figurative device in which two unlike things are compared, using the words "like" or "as"?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
allusion
d)
symbol
3.
What is the figurative device that is an extreme exaggeration?
a)
simile
b)
hyperbole
c)
allusion
d)
symbol
4.
What is the figurative device that uses a reference to a famous, person, place, thing, or idea?
a)
metaphor
b)
personification
c)
allusion
d)
symbol
5.
What is the figurative device that compares two unlike things by saying that one thing IS another?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
6.
What is the figurative device where something represents something else?
a)
simile
b)
symbol
c)
allusion
d)
hyperbol
7.
Which sound device uses an element of language-- a sound, word, or phrase-- more than once?
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
rhyme
d)
repetition
8.
Which sound device uses words that imitate sounds?
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
rhyme
d)
repetition
9.
Which poetry form is a song-like poem that tells a story and is often about adventure and romance?
a)
lyric poem
b)
ballad
c)
narrative poem
10.
Which sound device uses the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatpoeia
c)
rhyme
d)
rhyme scheme
11.
Which sound device uses a pattern of rhyme?
a)
rhyme
b)
internal rhyme
c)
repetition
d)
rhyme scheme
12.
Which sound device uses the repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the end of words?
a)
alliteration
b)
rhyme
c)
repetition
d)
onomatopoeia
13.
Which sound device uses rhyme within a line of poetry?
a)
repetition
b)
rhyme
c)
internal rhyme
d)
rhyme scheme
14.
Which poetry form is a humorous, rhyming five-line poem with a specific pattern and rhyme scheme?
a)
limerick
b)
haiku
c)
free verse
d)
concrete poem
15.
Which poetry form is a three line Japanese poem that describes something in nature, and has the syllable pattern 5-7-5?
a)
limerick
b)
haiku
c)
free verse
d)
concrete poem
16.
Which poetry form is defined by its lack structure and has no specific pattern?
a)
limerick
b)
haiku
c)
free verse
d)
concrete poem
17.
Which poetry form expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse?
a)
lyric poem
b)
ballad
c)
narrative poem
18.
Which poetry form tells a story in verse and has elements of short stories, such as plot and characters?
a)
lyric poem
b)
ballad
c)
narrative poem
19.
Which poetry term refers to the "narrator" of the poem?
a)
poet
b)
speaker
c)
stanza
d)
line
20.
Which poetry term refers to the writer of the poem?
a)
poet
b)
speaker
c)
stanza
d)
line
21.
Which poetry term refers to a group of lines arranged together in a poem?
a)
poet
b)
speaker
c)
stanza
d)
lines
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