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Intro to Poetry Practice

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What structure is poetry written in?
a)
Sentences & paragraphs
b)
Sentences & stanzas
c)
Lines & paragraphs
d)
Lines & stanzas
2.
What is the narrator of a poem called?
a)
Author
b)
Speaker
c)
Narrator
d)
Main character
3.
What device is used here:
Good as gold
Busy bee
Living the life
a)
Personification
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Alliteration
d)
Rhyme
4.
What is the following statement an example of?
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
5.

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.

a)

5

b)

2

c)

4

d)

3

6.

The tree danced around in the breeze, is an example of...

a)

Imagery

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Metaphor

7.

My backpack weighs a ton, is an example of ...

a)

Alliteration

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Personification

d)

Idiom

8.

Piper played the piano perfectly,is an example of ...

a)

Imagery

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Alliteration

d)

Idiom

9.

Whack! Went the fly swatter as I hit the fly, is an example of...

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Simile

c)

Idiom

d)

Hyperbole

10.

A poem with 14 lines is called a...

a)

sonnet

b)

couplet

c)

lyric

d)

stanza

11.

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.

a)

aabbaa

b)

abcabc

c)

ababab

d)

aabbcc

12.

"It was dark and dim in the forest" is an example of what literary device?

a)

hyperbole

b)

metaphor

c)

personification

d)

imagery

13.

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,"

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

repetition

d)

haiku

14.

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.

a)

1st person

b)

2nd person

c)

3rd person

d)

dynamic

15.

What is mood?

a)

The theme

b)

The author's attitude/feelings

c)

The reader's attitude/feelings

d)

The main idea

16.

What type of poem tells a story?

a)

lyric

b)

narrative

c)

sonnet

d)

stanza

17.

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."

a)

couplets

b)

tercets

c)

quatrains

d)

haikus