WorksheetsIntro to Poetry Practice
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 21mins
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
How many stanzas does this poem have?
Archery
It’s like touching without touching,
except when there is, also, touching.
We pull the bowstrings back
and parallel together,
aiming a handsbreadth higher
than we believe we intend,
and let the glove move where we draw the wire,
scared that the machinery
will misinterpret us,
that we may not stop trembling, that we may lose
our belief in ourselves
before anything is released, or shared, or sent.
5
2
4
3
The tree danced around in the breeze, is an example of...
Imagery
Hyperbole
Personification
Metaphor
My backpack weighs a ton, is an example of ...
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Personification
Idiom
Piper played the piano perfectly,is an example of ...
Imagery
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Idiom
Whack! Went the fly swatter as I hit the fly, is an example of...
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Idiom
Hyperbole
A poem with 14 lines is called a...
sonnet
couplet
lyric
stanza
What is the rhyme scheme in the following poem?
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle little star.
How I wonder what you are.
aabbaa
abcabc
ababab
aabbcc
"It was dark and dim in the forest" is an example of what literary device?
hyperbole
metaphor
personification
imagery
The following excerpt from "Annabel Lee" contains examples of what?
“It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know …
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,"
metaphor
simile
repetition
haiku
Which of the following best describes the point of view the following poem is written in?
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.
1st person
2nd person
3rd person
dynamic
What is mood?
The theme
The author's attitude/feelings
The reader's attitude/feelings
The main idea
What type of poem tells a story?
lyric
narrative
sonnet
stanza
The following poem has stanzas that can be referred to as....
"I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more."
couplets
tercets
quatrains
haikus
