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WorksheetsELA 8 - 5/18/2018 (Poetry & Root Words)
Total questions: 90
Worksheet time: 25mins
The root word "geo" means:
water
heat
earth
The root word "aer" means:
air
water
The root word "pyr" means:
fire
water
pyramid
I know that _______ activity is good for me, but my main motivation for running everyday on the beach is to be outside in nature.
pyromania
aerobic
geode
geothermal
Which item would you not want to be aerodynamic?
an airplane
a car
a parachute
choose an antonym for aerate:
fly
oxygenate
suffocate
Pyrotechnics are commonly seen:
in the night's sky during a holiday
on the surface of the sun
following a volcanic eruption
____: geography :: rocks:geology
life
oceans
land
A patrician is the name for a children's doctor.
True
False
Which of the following characteristics/examples would NOT be maternal?
Caring for a child when he/she is sick.
A mother bear protecting her cubs.
Someone on your mom's side of the family
Abandoning children
Choose an example of personification
I am so hungry I could eat a horse
The sun is like a light bulb
The sun smiled at us
I want to be awesome
Which one of these could be a personification?
He is as slow as a turtle
The tornado ran through town without a care
BOOM!!
Identify the simile below...
The tree danced in the wind.
She is as tall as a tree!
That cat is the devil.
What's the meaning of this metaphor?
"After all the fans left the stadium, the bleachers were a disaster area."
Trash and leftover food and drinks littered the ground.
Lots of caution tape was used to block off sections.
Reporters were everywhere trying to catch a story.
After the game, a tornado hit.
What is a metaphor?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
A comparison not using like or as
Words that are sounds
A comparison using like or as
What is imagery?
An exaggeration
A phrase that is not meant to be taken literally
The same beginning sound repeated
Words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
When two or more words have the same sound at the ends of lines is:
alliteration
onomatopoeia
rhyme
Words or phrases in writing that should not be taken literally:
antonyms
sensory details
figurative language
When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a
simile
metaphor
When several words begin with the same sound in a row (or very closely) is:
personification
alliteration
metaphor
"My flowers were begging for water on the hot summer day" is an example of:
antonym
metaphor
personification
"Her ruby slippers glowed like embers in a fire" is an example of what figurative language?
simile
metaphor
What is a stanza?
A group of words or a phrase in a poem
A group of lines in a poem (similar to a paragraphs in literature)
What type of figurative language is shown?
Darcy daringly dove down the deep ditch.
alliteration
simile
onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is shown?
Life is one long, adventurous roller coaster.
simile
onomatopeia
metaphor
What sound device is indicated by the highlighted words?
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I wish you could see
How much I love you!
simile
rhyme
A poem that sounds similar to everyday speech (with no pattern of rhyme or meter) is called...
free verse
captive verse
descriptive language that appeals to our senses
imagery
sonnet
metaphor
A rhyme that occurs in two consecutive (back to back) lines of poetry like that below:
My teammate Billy just hit a home run
Which means that our team has finally WON!
couplet
meter
tone
the voice talking to the reader in a poem
speaker
tone
prose
a writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward a subject or toward an audience
tone
diction
couplet
a poem with fourteen lines that consists of 3 quatrains and 1 couplet
sonnet
couplet
idiom
A group of lines in a poem (like a paragraph)
Stanza
Haiku
The pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines in a poem (ex. aabba)
Internal Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Free Verse
Is the following an example of a simile or a metaphor?
My children are my sunshine, and they can brighten any gloomy day.
Simile
Metaphor
Lyric poetry:
tells a story with feelings
always rhymes
Imagery appeals to the ______________.
memory
senses
animals
An allusion is a reference to what?
a well-known place
a well-known event
a well-known work of art or literature
All of the above
What is the mood of the following sentences?
“They looked at Martian hills that time had worn with a crushing pressure of years. They saw old cities, lost in their meadows, lying like children's delicate bones among the blowing lakes of grass.”
Gloomy
Joyful
Confident
What does this statement "allude" to?
The candy was so sweet, she yelled out, "Taste the rainbow! It's so sweet!"
Captain crunch cereal
Snickers candy bar
Skittles candies
What is the rhyme scheme for the poem “Dreams”?
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
AABB
ABAB
ABCB
What is the RHYME SCHEME of this poem?
Roses are red
Glasses are clear
I can't believe what you said
When I was standing so near!
A, C, A, B
A, B, C, B
A, B, A, B
How many stanzas are in this poem?
It was July, and the sun
toasted the emerald grass
until it smelled of warmth
and green and life.
It was July, and my heart
soaked up the air warmth
until it sang of joy
and love and life.
The poem has 1 stanza
The poem has 2 stanzas
The poem has 4 stanzas
A poem that has no pattern of rhyme or meter is called ...
ballad
free verse
lyric
The pattern created by placing rhyming words in specific places
iambic pentameter
rhyme scheme
refrain
What would the rhyme scheme be of the following poem?
Good morning, Good morning
How's my teacher doing today?
I'll give you a warning
She's yet to have her coffee today.
AABB
ABCD
ABBA
ABAB
Rhyming words that fall at the ends of two or more lines (crawls, falls, walls) is:
slant rhyme
alternating rhyme
end rhyme
Rhyming words placed within a line
(The mouse in the house woke the cat.)
end rhyme
alternating rhyme
internal rhyme
A four-line stanza
cinquain
quatrain
couplet
Identify the rhyme scheme:
I smelled the scent of a rose,
I inhaled the scent through my nose.
While allergic to pollen,
A sneeze came a callin'
And knocked me right off of my toes.
There is no rhyme scheme in this poem.
ABCAB
AABBA
Rhyme scheme?
A B C D
A A B B C C
A B C D E F G
What is the rhyme scheme for these lines from “If”?
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
AABB
ABAB
ABCB
ABBA
What is the rhyme scheme?
AA BB CC
A B A B
AA BB AA
"Paula Prue, I'm mad at you"
The above verse contains ________ rhyme.
internal
end
no
Identify the rhyme scheme in this poem by Claude McKay:
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Marking their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
AAAA BBBB CCCC DD
ABCD EFGH IJKL MM
Rhyme that is not perfect rhyme is
Internal Rhyme
Approximate Rhyme
End Rhyme
