WorksheetsPoetry and Poetic Devices
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 27mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What structure is poetry written in?
a)
Sentences & paragraphs
b)
Sentences & stanzas
c)
Lines & paragraphs
d)
Lines & stanzas
2.
Poetry uses ____ devices like rhythm and rhyme.
a)
Sound
b)
Sight
c)
Taste
d)
Touch
3.
What is the narrator of a poem called?
a)
Author
b)
Speaker
c)
Narrator
d)
Main character
4.
True or False: All poems must rhyme.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
Define "rhyme."
a)
Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
b)
The repetition of a letter.
c)
The repetition of an ending sound.
6.
Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.
a)
Musical
b)
Old-fashioned
c)
Important
d)
Difficult
7.
What is "alliteration" ?
a)
The use of synonyms.
b)
Words that sound alike.
c)
An exaggeration.
d)
The repetition of a beginning letter sound.
8.
What device is a comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" ?
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
c)
Alliteration
d)
Hyberbole
9.
What device is a comparison of two unlike things which says one thing IS another?
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Alliteration
c)
Metaphor
d)
Simile
10.
What device assigns human qualities to a non-living thing?
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Personification
c)
Alliteration
d)
Idiom
11.
Which literary device is an extreme exaggeration?
a)
Metaphor
b)
Alliteration
c)
Personification
d)
Hyperbole
12.
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
13.
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
14.
What is "onomatopoeia" ?
a)
An exaggeration
b)
Sound words
c)
Rhyming words
d)
A form of imagery
15.
Groups of lines are called ______________.
a)
Sentences
b)
Stanzas
c)
Tony Danzas
d)
Line groupings
16.
Free verse poetry does not have...
a)
stanzas
b)
plot or conflict
c)
rhyme or rhythm
d)
serious topic
17.
All are found in poetry except...
a)
rhyme scheme
b)
rhythm
c)
stanza
d)
paragraphs
18.
Poems that tell a story are called...
a)
free verse poems
b)
lyrical poems
c)
narrative poems
d)
humorous poems
19.
rhymes at the ends of lines of poetry
a)
end rhyme
b)
internal rhyme
c)
complete rhyme
d)
rhyme
20.
rhymes within lines of poetry
a)
rhyme
b)
complete rhyme
c)
internal rhyme
d)
end rhyme
21.
the pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem or song
a)
rhythm
b)
rhyme scheme
c)
end rhyme
d)
internal rhyme
22.
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
23.
How the reader feels while reading the piece of writing
a)
Connotation
b)
Denotation
c)
Tone
d)
Mood
24.
Words or phrases that relate to the 5 senses
a)
Sound Devices
b)
Sensory Details
c)
Alliteration
d)
Imagery
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