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Worksheets8th grade poetry review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the poem "Steam Shovel" about?
a)
Jurassic Park
b)
A machine that is like a dinosaur
c)
A robot dinosaur
d)
An animal
2.
What is an extended metaphor?
a)
When an object, idea, or animal is given human characteristics
b)
A comparison using the words like or as
c)
An exageration
d)
A metaphor that makes up the entire poem
3.
Which of the following lines has rhyme scheme? ( the / means a new line)
a)
The dinosaurs are not all dead/I saw one raise its iron head
b)
Well,son, I'll tell you:/ Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
c)
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore
d)
All my problems/who knows, maybe everybody's problems
4.
Which one is a paraphrase of lines 1-4 of "Steam Shovel"?
a)
Machines are like dinosaurs
b)
a dinosaur looked at me
c)
Dinosaurs are alive
I watched one look up
to see me walk by
near my home
I watched one look up
to see me walk by
near my home
d)
a dinosaur was at my house
5.
Which line is a form of dialect?
a)
And splinters
b)
I'se been a-climbin' on
c)
it's had tacks in it
d)
And places with no carpet on the floor
6.
How many stanzas does "Mother to Son" have?
a)
2 stanzas
b)
20 stanzas
c)
No stanzas
d)
1 stanza
7.
Which poem is Free Verse and why?
a)
"Mother to Son" because it doesn't rhyme
b)
"Steam Shovel"
because it rhymes
because it rhymes
c)
"Steam Shovel"
because it doesn't rhyme
because it doesn't rhyme
d)
"Mother to Son"
because it rhymes
because it rhymes
8.
Which line has personification?
a)
The sun is as hot as an oven
b)
The light bulb is a small sun.
c)
The sun smiled down at me.
9.
Which is an inference about "Mother to Son"?
a)
A mother tells her son that life has not been a crystal stair
b)
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
c)
Life isn't fair
d)
She is still going
10.
Which line has simile?
a)
Life is like a staircase
b)
Life is a staircase
c)
I like staircases
d)
The stairs jumped out at me
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