WorksheetsPoetry
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 47mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words?
a)
Repetition
b)
Alliteration
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Rhyme
2.
What gives human qualities to something that is non-human?
a)
Sensory Language
b)
Metaphor
c)
Onomatopoeia
d)
Personification
3.
What is the use of any element of language, more than once?
a)
Repetition
b)
Rhyme
c)
Alliteration
d)
Rhythm
4.
What describes one thing as if it were something else.
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Onomatopoeia
5.
What is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses?
a)
Alliteration
b)
Onomatopoeia
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Sensory Language
6.
What uses like or as to compare two apparently unlike things?
a)
Metaphor
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Simile
d)
Repetition
7.
What is writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally?
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Figurative Language
c)
Sensory Language
d)
Metaphor
8.
What is the use of words that imitate sounds? (Crash, bang, hiss, slpat)
a)
Sensory Language
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Figurative Language
d)
Onomatopoeia
9.
Alliteration?
a)
It's not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.
b)
Dyslexics of the world untie!
c)
Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!
d)
Darn dogs dancing.
I’m the sleekest sheet slitter
that ever slit sheets.
I’m the sleekest sheet slitter
that ever slit sheets.
10.
A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space. This is like the paragraph of poetry
a)
stanza
b)
refrain
c)
ballad
d)
chorus
11.
What is personification?
a)
Giving human like things to non human like things
b)
A comparison that uses like or as
c)
a comparison that do
d)
Use of a object to stand for a thing or idea
12.
What structure is poetry written in?
a)
Sentences & paragraphs
b)
Sentences & stanzas
c)
Lines & paragraphs
d)
Lines & stanzas
13.
THE MEssage about life that the poem or story tells
Ex: friendship, bravery, courage
Ex: friendship, bravery, courage
a)
alliteration
b)
tone
c)
theme
d)
stanza
14.
Imagery appeals to the ______________.
a)
brain
b)
senses
c)
crazy people
d)
memory
15.
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
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