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WorksheetsPoetry
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Poetry uses ____ devices like rhythm and rhyme.
a)
sound
b)
sight
c)
taste
d)
touch
2.
What is the narrator of a poem called?
a)
author
b)
speaker
c)
narrator
d)
main character
3.
True or False: All poems must rhyme.
a)
True
b)
False
4.
Define "rhyme."
a)
comparing two things using "like" or "as"
b)
the repetition of a letter
c)
the repetition of an ending sound
5.
Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.
a)
musical
b)
old-fashioned
c)
important
d)
difficult
6.
What is alliteration?
a)
the use of synonyms
b)
words that sound alike
c)
an exaggeration
d)
the repetition of a beginning letter sound
7.
What sound device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
hyberbole
8.
What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?
a)
hyberbole
b)
personification
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
9.
What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?
a)
hyperbole
b)
personification
c)
alliteration
d)
idiom
10.
Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration?
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
11.
What is an onomatpoeia?
a)
an exaggeration
b)
sound words
c)
rhyming words
d)
a form of imagery
12.
What structure is poetry written in?
a)
sentences & paragraphs
b)
sentences & stanzas
c)
lines & paragraphs
d)
lines & stanzas
13.
Groups of lines are called ______.
a)
sentences
b)
stanzas
c)
danzas
d)
line groupings
14.
Words used in an imaginative way that expresses ideas that are not necessarily true.
a)
figurative language
b)
poetry
c)
line
d)
stanza
15.
Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses.
a)
figurative language
b)
imagery
c)
symbol
d)
speaker
16.
A person, place, or object that stands for a larger idea.
a)
imagery
b)
symbol
c)
figurative language
d)
hyperbole
17.
Groups of words.
a)
stanzas
b)
lines
c)
paragraph
d)
sentence
18.
EX: It was as boring as watching paint dry.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
19.
EX: I have a ton of chores to do when I get home.
a)
symbol
b)
simile
c)
metaphor
d)
hyberbole
20.
The crocodile's teeth are white daggers.
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
personification
d)
poetry
21.
EX: The lightening danced across the night sky.
a)
stanza
b)
hyperbole
c)
symbol
d)
personification
22.
EX: The snow is a white blanket.
a)
hyperbole
b)
alliteration
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
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