WorksheetsPoetry Review
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 30mins
Poetry is writing that...
...is emotional
...doesn't use punctuation
...uses words for their sound AND meaning
...uses words only for their meaning
Poets often use this to create pauses and add emphasis to specific lines, phrases, or words in their poems.
capital letters
dashes
sporadic punctuation
all of the above
A stanza is...
...a group of lines
...a short poem
...the rhyme scheme
...the way to measure a poem's rhythm
A couplet is...
...a group of lines
...a pair of rhyming lines
...a rhyme scheme
...a pair of poems
An _______ is a poem mourning the dead with no set metric or stanza pattern.
Ode
Elegy
Sonnet
Epic
This type of poem has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern
Free verse
Narrative
Limerick
Concrete
This type of poem has three lines and a 5/7/5 meter
Limerick
Ode
Ballad
Haiku
Humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme are...
Limericks
Haikus
Narrative poems
Lyric poems
This type of poem tells a story in verse and likely has characters, a setting, plot, conflict, and theme
Lyric
Narrative
Haiku
Ode
A _________ is a poem consisting of 14 lines and usually written in iambic pentameter.
Ode
Elegy
Sonnet
Limerick
When a writer refers to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, or piece of literature...
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Assonance
Alliteration
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
The following sentence contains...
Kathy has a collection of crazy, calico cats.
alliteration
imagery
metaphor
personification
Repetition of internal vowel sounds
Consonance
Rhyme
Alliteration
Assonance
Repetition of similar consonant sounds
Consonance
Assonance
Alliteration
Repetition
He stood on the road and cried.
alliteration
assonance
consonance
repetition
Words that appeal to the five senses
metaphor
theme
personification
imagery
The rhythmical pattern of a poem
Meter
Rhyme
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
The feeling the reader gets from a poem
stanza
tone
mood
metaphor
Words that are used to imitate sounds
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Consonance
The following sentence contains...
With a crash, the tree fell on the ground.
theme
alliteration
onomatopoeia
metaphor
Giving human-like qualities to something non-human
personification
allusion
imagery
theme
The following sentence contains...
The flowers danced in the breeze.
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
hyperbole
The use of any element of language more than once
(sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence)
repetition
rhythm
rhyme
meter
Repetition of sounds at the ends of words
Rhythm
Meter
Rhyme
Consonance
What is rhyme scheme?
number of syllables in each line
the way to measure a poems rhythm
a group of lines
The pattern of the rhyme in a poem.
A comparison between two unlike things using "as" or "like"
tone
simile
metaphor
mood
The following sentence contains...
The story was like a puzzle with different meanings.
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
personfication
The following sentence contains...
Captain Bennett was an angry buffalo.
simile
personification
metaphor
theme
Anything that represents something else
symbol
simile
onomatopoeia
personification
The author's attitude toward the poem's subject
mood
tone
theme
speaker
The following sentence contains...
The wind whistled by the window.
alliteration and onomatopoeia
alliteration and metaphor
simile and allusion
onomatopoeia and hyperbole
The following sentence contains...
Don't judge a book by its cover.
onomatopoeia
theme
simile
personification
The following quote contains...
"life is a broken winged bird/that cannot fly" - Langston Hughes
simile
allusion
imagery
metaphor
The following quote contains...
"I'll love you til the river jumps over the mountain" - WH Auden
personification and hyperbole
personification and imagery
metaphor and simile
simile and allusion
The following sentence contains...
I'm no Hercules, but I can try to open that jar.
metaphor
simile
allusion
rhyme
The following quote contains...
"So many watches I need eight arms" - Jay Z
personification
hyperbole
metaphor
extended metaphor
The metaphor "Time is a thief" probably means...
Time moves fast!
It's fun to spend time together
Thieves steal things
Time doesn't matter
The feeling we get when hearing/reading a word or phrase
connotation
denotation
tone
literal meaning
The dictionary definition of a word is also know as...
tone
connotation
denotation
alliteration
A phrase/saying that has come to mean something totally different than what the words literally mean
pun
rhyme
metaphor
idiom
"You're pulling my leg" is an example of
idiom
pun
personification
simile
A play on words that makes a joke out of words that sound the same but have different meanings/spellings
pun
idiom
allusion
onomatopoeia
The following sentence contains...
I balked when I saw the tall cop in the hall; I knew he was looking for you.
alliteration
assonance
consonance
What did you do this time?!
The following sentence contains...
Until he picks up the pills, Tim will feel icky.
alliteration
assonance
consonance
Tim sure gets sick often
The following sentence contains...
The zoo was amazing, especially the lizards and chimpanzees.
alliteration
assonance
consonance
imagery
The following sentence contains...
Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps.
alliteration
assonance
consonance
imagery
The following sentence contains...
A blue, new moon rose high in the sky, casting a subdued hue over the school.
consonance
assonance
imagery
creepy
The following sentence contains...
A tall tree could fall hard, even with no ear near.
alliteration
assonance
consonance
parable
Which of the following does not contain an alliteration?
Erin cooked cupcakes in the kitchen.
The lion licked his lips.
The tank ran everything over.
She happily helped Henry hang up the decorations.
What phrase would make the following word an alliteration: Sam
circled the building.
ran around the building.
is like a cheetah when he runs.
jogged to the building.
