WorksheetsPoetry Test Review
Total questions: 33
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.
What is "alliteration" ?
a)
The use of synonyms.
b)
Words that sound alike.
c)
An exaggeration.
d)
The repetition of a beginning letter sound.
4.
What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Alliteration
d)
Hyberbole
5.
What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Alliteration
c)
Metaphor
d)
Simile
6.
What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Personification
c)
Alliteration
d)
Idiom
7.
Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration?
a)
Metaphor
b)
Alliteration
c)
Personification
d)
Hyperbole
8.
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
9.
What is "onomatopoeia" ?
a)
An exaggeration
b)
Sound words
c)
Rhyming words
d)
A form of imagery
10.
What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses?
a)
stanza
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
optical illusion
d)
imagery
11.
What are words or phrases repeated throughout the poem?
a)
rhyme scheme
b)
rhythm
c)
repetition
d)
rhyme
12.
Which poetry term refers to a group of lines arranged together in a poem?
a)
Poet
b)
Speaker
c)
Stanza
d)
Lines
13.
Poetry that does not have a set rhyming pattern
a)
a) Patterned
b)
b) Free Verse
c)
c) Rhymed
d)
d) Humorous
14.
Poetry is written according to what kind of structure?
a)
a) Sentences & paragraphs
b)
b) Sentences
c)
c) Lines & paragraphs
d)
d) Lines & stanzas
15.
The message or moral of the story is known as the
a)
theme
b)
main idea
c)
summary
d)
plot
16.
Onomatopoeias, metaphors, similes, hyperboles, idioms, and personification are all types of...
a)
figurative language
b)
sensory language
c)
genres
d)
media
17.
Poetry that has a plot, characters, and tells a story is called
a)
free verse
b)
humorous poetry
c)
narrative poetry
d)
lyrical poetry
18.
"The snow is a white blanket" is an example of what figurative language device?
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Alliteration
c)
Metaphor
d)
Simile
19.
What figurative language is used in this sentence?
"The sun was calling my name with its glowing, warm rays of light."
"The sun was calling my name with its glowing, warm rays of light."
a)
Metaphor
b)
Personification
c)
Refrain
d)
Hyperbole
20.
What figurative language is used in this sentence?
"Gilbert and Gus gulped and gasped for air as they fought over the squeaky toy."
"Gilbert and Gus gulped and gasped for air as they fought over the squeaky toy."
a)
Rhyme
b)
Simile
c)
Alliteration
d)
Personification
21.
What figurative language is used in this sentence?
"The boy was a statue when the train passed him by."
"The boy was a statue when the train passed him by."
a)
Simile
b)
Refrain
c)
Personification
d)
Metaphor
22.
What figurative language is used in this sentence?
"The teenage boy left behind a stench of Axe so powerful that it could set off the smoke detectors."
"The teenage boy left behind a stench of Axe so powerful that it could set off the smoke detectors."
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Personification
c)
Simile
d)
Refrain
23.
What figurative language is used in this sentence?
"The boy was as fast as a rocket as he sped by on his bicycle."
"The boy was as fast as a rocket as he sped by on his bicycle."
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Personification
24.
A sentence, phrase, or word arranged into a single row is known as a
a)
line
b)
stanza
c)
rhythm
d)
anonymous
25.
"Tragic comedy" is an example of a(n)
a)
Oxymoron
b)
Onomatopoeia
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Alliteration
26.
When a word at the end of one line rhymes with the end of another line it is called
a)
Internal Rhyme
b)
End Rhyme
c)
Approximate/Slant Rhyme
27.
Rhyme that is not perfect rhyme is
a)
Internal Rhyme
b)
Approximate/Slant Rhyme
c)
End Rhyme
28.
Two rhyming words are found in the same line is an example of
a)
Internal Rhyme
b)
End Rhyme
c)
Approximate/Slant Rhyme
29.
In Rihanna's video for "American Oxygen," there were references, or _____, to historical events
a)
Allusions
b)
Metaphors
c)
Similes
d)
Hyperboles
30.
In the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes, Hughes discusses a dream deferred, or a dream
a)
that has been pushed to the side
b)
that has already come true
c)
that does not exist
d)
that could never happen
31.
One similarity between "Dear Mama" and "Mother to Son" is
a)
both are similar in length and tone
b)
both include no rhythm
c)
both deal with struggles and hardships
d)
the speaker in both is the son
32.
The Harlem Renaissance was an influential time period for
a)
African-Americans
b)
People out west of the Mississippi River
c)
Native Americans
d)
People east of the Mississippi River
33.
In "American Oxygen" Rihanna sings "We sweat for a nickel and a dime." What could she mean?
a)
People work very hard for their money
b)
People don't really work hard at all
c)
People don't deserve to be paid very much
d)
People do not like working in America much
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