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WorksheetsPoetic Devices and Sound Elements (Retake)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which of the following is NOT an example of rhyme?
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.
And our fish came down, too. He fell into a pot. He said, "Do I like this? Oh, no! I do not!"
Then he shut up the things in a box with a hook. And the cat went away with a sad kind of look.
And THEN! Who was back in the house? Why, the cat!
Dove = Peace would be an example of...
personification
metaphor
alliteration
symbolism
“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sings in the street,
I’ll love you till the ocean
is folded and hung up to dry.”
This example is the OPPOSITE of…
Hyperbole
Litotes
Idiom
Oxymoron
What poetic device does this excerpt contain?
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called…”
symbol
imagery
metaphor
analogy
What is the tone of the following text?
"I will not!" she shouted. "I will not be left at the mercy of our enemies while you slink away!"
pleased
angry
happy
suspicious
What is this example of?
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.”
Metaphor
Allusion
Pun
Meter
The writer's attitude toward the subject or audience...
□ rhythm
□ theme
□ tone
□ stanza
“He had to fight for it tooth and nail.
He felt like a rag, so he called it a day.
Discovering the tiny blotch on her skin was like a blessing in disguise – they caught the cancer early!”
The following expressions are….
□ Personifications
□ Analogies
□ Idioms
□ Similes
“So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
The first line in this excerpt contains a/an _________________ to the Bible.
□ metaphor
□ allusion
□ slant rhyme
□ meter
What structure is poetry written in?
□ Sentences & paragraphs
□ Sentences & stanzas
□ Lines & paragraphs
□ Lines & stanzas
"Life is like a box of chocolates" is an example of __________.
□ simile
□ figure of speech
□ metaphor
□ imagery
Fill in the blanks for an example of alliteration:
Are you hungry? Let's find a café for ....... ....... and .......
□ cakes, coffee, cola
□ cakes, coffee, tea
□ egg, chips, cola
□ fish, chips, coffee
There was such a joyful sadness in her beautiful but full of wrinkles face.
What is the oxymoron?
□ Beautiful Face
□ Such a
□ Joyful Sadness
□ Full of wrinkles
“Futile the winds -
To a heart in port -
Done with the compass!
Done with the chart!”
The highlighted words show the use of __________.
□ end rhyme
□ near rhyme
□ rhyme scheme
□ internal rhyme
Read the sentence and choose the onomatopoeic word.
“Mary was doing the dishes and the clanging pots awoke the baby.”
□ pots
□ clanging
□ dishes
□ awoke
Which of these is an example of hyperbole?
□ Damp? Was it damp? I grew moss on my feet!
□ “And I said to myself, "Now I really don't see
Why troubles like this have to happen to me!”
□ Welcome, my son, to this beautiful land.
Welcome to sweet, sunny Solla Sollew,
□ They bumped me with bikes
and they banged me with dishes.
I ran into ladders,
Beds, bottles and fishes.
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a verse creating a rhythm, is called a...
□ rhythm
□ rhyme
□ meter
□ personification
Combining opposite objects, ideas and concepts in order to draw attention and point out a deeper connection is called a/an….
□ Extended Metaphor
□ Litotes
□ Oxymoron
□ Hyperbole
Define mood ….
□ The reader's feelings
□ The reader's attitude
□ The author's feelings
□ The author's attitude
Which of these does NOT contain personification?
□ “I think you’re a fool!” laughed the sour kangaroo and the young kangaroo in her pouch said, “Me, too!"
□ On the 15th of May, in the Jungle of Nool, In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool, He was splashing… enjoying the jungle’s great joys… When Horton the elephant heard a small noise.
□ Sighed Mayzie, a lazy bird hatching an egg: “I’m tired and I’m bored And I’ve kinks in my leg From sitting, just sitting here day after day."
The elephant laughed. “Why, of all silly things! I haven’t feathers and I haven’t wings. Me on your egg? Why, that doesn’t make sense… Your egg is so small, ma’am, and I’m so immense!”
