WorksheetsLiterary (Poetic) Terms Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 3600secs
What type of literary device is shown?
Darcy daringly dove down the deep ditch.
alliteration
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
personification
What type of literary device is shown?
The run down house looked depressed.
personification
idiom
alliteration
hyperbole
What is metaphor?
exaggeration for effect
a comparison of unlike things without using like or as
a comparison of unlike things using like or as
repeition of intial consonant sound
What is onomatopoeia?
a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
use of words that imitate sounds
repetition of sounds at the end of words
a word, phrase, line or group of lines that is repeated regularly
Figurative Language: Choose the metaphor.
The sky is low, the clouds are mean
Down in their cabins, the sailors are sheep
The stormy seas as dark as coal
Choose the example that includes alliteration.
Silent as a shadow, the boy crossed the reef.
The boy stood taut as a drawn arrow.
The mutter of the sea.
The little boy gasped when he touched the cold water.
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
We can't find the cat,
We don't know where she's at,
Oh, where did she go?
Does anyone know?
Let's ask this walking hat.
abbba
aabba
ababa
babab
How many syllables does this line have?
A gash, a rash, and purple bumps.
8 syllables
9 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I wish you could see
How much I love you!
What sound device is indicated by the highlighted words?
meter
rhyme
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
the repetition of vowel sounds
Ex: Great/Late
assonance
diction
prose
metaphor
Rhyming which occurs at the end of the line of poetry
Metaphor
End Rhyme
Simile
Internal Rhyme
What is symbolism?
When something represents or stands for something else
One row of text in a poem
Repeated pattern of sound
Poetry in general
Which literary device is used in the following example?
“Well, son, I'll tell you:/ Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.”
(Langston Hughes, "Mother to Son")
hyperbole
personification
simile
metaphor
Which literary device is used in the following example?
“The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet/ At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk”
(Billy Corgan, "Thirty-three")
oxymoron
pun
personification
simile
Which literary device is used in the following example?
The ocean looks like/ A thousand diamonds strewn /Across a blue blanket.”
(Incubus, "Wish You Were Here")
simile
metaphor
personification
onomatopoeia
Which literary device(s) are used in the following example? CHECK ALL THAT APPLY.
“Once upon a midnight dreary
while I pondered weak and weary”
(Edgar Allan Poe)
personification
alliteration
simile
rhyme
Which literary device is used in the following example?
“Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle”
(Edgar Allen Poe)
personification
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
metaphor
Which literary device is used in the following example?
“The prisoner would not answer, he only lay with wide, dark, bright, eyes”
(D. H. Lawrence, England, My England)
simile
metaphor
oxymoron
personification
