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LA9 Poetry Review: Words We Wrote

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When the storm is thundering outside her window

She does not budge

When the rain is pelting against her door

She stands firm

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Parallelism

d)

Metonymy

2.

She is a fire cracker

Filled with sparks and light

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Synecdoche

d)

Personification

3.

Like a hail storm, pelting down in the rain,

My mood seemed to shift, up and down, side to side

a)

Consonance

b)

Allusion

c)

Pun

d)

Simile

4.

Through the trees not a sunlight’s glow…

Dead man’s souls I’ve come to know

A horrible way to stumble and go

Is down the dead man’s flow

a)

Rhyme

b)

Assonance

c)

Juxtaposition

d)

Onomatopoeia

5.

Each word the doctor said added more weight

Little by little

Until I was thrown overboard

And the weight anchored me down

To the floor of a deep sea

a)

Pun

b)

Alliteration

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

6.

Personality,

It Shines Through a Person

Like The Sun Shines Through A Window.

a)

Imagery

b)

Synechdoche

c)

Assonance

d)

Onomatopoeia

7.

Loneliness...

It tastes like a frozen meal for one

a)

Alliteration

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

8.

You just know of the foxes that live in forests

The ones that use their mouths for everything

Cannt rite cuase thy an’t intilligint…

But I know the foxes that live in castles

Write the most beautiful sonnets ever written

Swimming in all the knowledge of our world

a)

Simile

b)

Imagery

c)

Metonymy

d)

Pun

9.

Bright lights blur together

Fluorescent screens against the dark sky…

Like a sparkling jewel hidden in a maze of concrete

a)

Juxtaposition

b)

Allusion

c)

Simile

d)

Pun

10.

joy sounds like a ukulele

like summer music

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Consonance

c)

Alliteration

d)

Rhyme

11.

Oh lemons…

Your marvelous citrus tingling on my tongue

Making my salads explode with flavour

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Juxtaposition

12.

Yellow is the tips of fire that lick

with it’s flaming tongue…

Burning. Blazing. Boiling. Blistering.

The smoke chokes out anything that’s alive

a)

Simile

b)

Onompatopoeia

c)

Pun

d)

Personification

13.

Life is a broken photograph frame

What was once memories inside

Is now a melancholy hole in the wall…

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Rhyme

14.

Thank you for your beautiful taste

I will hurt someone if they put you to waste

Oh bacon how I adore you…

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Alliteration

c)

Allusion

d)

Metonymy

15.

Frozen lakes

Hot cocoa

Frozen toes

Warm Fire

a)

Synechdoche

b)

Metaphor

c)

Parallelism

d)

Rhyme

16.

My mind is exploding with memories

My hands are shaking

a)

Personification

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Consonance

d)

Onomatopoeia

17.

The sun glaring with a vengeance

Shadows fleeing from its anger…

Heat in abundance, killing snow

a)

Personification

b)

Allteration

c)

Simile

d)

Pun

18.

Diabetes cereal

It’s the sweetest way to stop your heart

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Alliteration

c)

Juxtaposition

d)

Simile

19.

Your eyes glimmer like a shining star

And as I keep looking I get lost…

a)

Allusion

b)

Metonymy

c)

Synechdoche

d)

Imagery

20.

… I thought

that all my dreams and hopes

were gone and that they flew

away like ashes…

a)

Irony

b)

Personification

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

21.

Happiness…

It sounds like ice cream truck bells…

It tastes like a free sample

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

22.

McDonalds, how you bring satisfaction to my mouth…

Although you make me fat, you have a play place I can lose you in.

You are my happy place.

a)

Simile

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Rhyme

d)

Alliteration

23.

Calm is feeling like a warm summer day

Your mind is the sky,

but a calm mind has no clouds

a)

Simile

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Pun

d)

Allusion

24.

The melody courses through your veins,

so let the steady drum make your heart beat!

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Rhyme

d)

Onomatopoeia

25.

The waves rolling in and out…

The loneliness of the shore

a)

Pun

b)

Rhyme

c)

Alliteration

d)

Assonance

26.

Picking up the pieces of my life

Hoping I put something together right

Broken and shattered

Pieces are scattered

a)

Rhyme

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Juxtaposition

27.

Oh how you snap crackle and pop

I love the snapping and burning blaze

Oh how your sparks dance!

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Allusion

d)

Juxtaposition

28.

If time were frozen

I could do anything.

It would be so swift,

Just like Zing!

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Pun

29.

A beautiful shower of mist

A rainbow stretched across the sky

The sidewalks gleamed and glittered

a)

Allusion

b)

Simile

c)

Rhyme

d)

Alliteration