WorksheetsPoetry Unit Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 17mins
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.
Define "rhyme."
a)
Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
b)
The repetition of a letter.
c)
The repetition of an ending sound.
4.
Rhythm gives poetry a ____ quality.
a)
Musical
b)
Old-fashioned
c)
Important
d)
Difficult
5.
What is "alliteration" ?
a)
The use of synonyms.
b)
Words that sound alike.
c)
An exaggeration.
d)
The repetition of a beginning letter sound.
6.
In poetry, what is "meter" ?
a)
Words that sound the same
b)
Sophisticated vocabulary
c)
The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
d)
The length of a poem
7.
What 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)
Hyperbole
b)
Alliteration
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)
Alliteration
c)
Personification
d)
Hyperbole
11.
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
12.
What is "onomatopoeia" ?
a)
An exaggeration
b)
Sound words
c)
Rhyming words
d)
A form of imagery
13.
Which poetry term refers to a group of lines arranged together in a poem?
a)
a) Poet
b)
b) Speaker
c)
c) Stanza
d)
d) Lines
14.
What is an idiom?
a)
a) A comparison using like or as.
b)
b) A phrase that has rhythm.
c)
A phrase that is not meant to be taken literally.
d)
d) The same beginning sounds repeated.
15.
the message or moral of the story
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.
The snow is a white blanket.
a)
Hyperbole
b)
Alliteration
c)
Metaphor
d)
Simile
18.
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
19.
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
20.
What is tone?
a)
the feeling or atmosphere the author creates for the reader
b)
author's unique style of expression
c)
author's attitude toward a subject
21.
________ is a three-line Japanese form that describes something in nature. The first and third lines each have five syllables, and the second line has seven.
a)
Free Verse
b)
Ballad
c)
Haiku
d)
Lyric
22.
___________ are humorous, rhyming five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme.
a)
Lyric Poetry
b)
Limericks
c)
Ballads
d)
Free Verse Poems
23.
What are pairs of rhyming lines called?
a)
Stanzas
b)
Meters
c)
Rhyme schemes
d)
Couplets
24.
In this form poems are shaped to look like subjects.
a)
Narrative
b)
Free Verse
c)
Lyric
d)
Concrete
25.
The author's attitude toward the subject or text
a)
Connotation
b)
Denotation
c)
Mood
d)
Tone
26.
The way the author wants a reader to feel during a poem or story
a)
Mood
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Tone
d)
Imagery
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