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Poetry: 8th Grade English

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This line of poetry has an example of?

Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so;

a)

rhyme

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

Eye Rhyme

d)

Simile

2.

This line of poetry has an example of?

Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm."

a)

rhyme

b)

hyperbole

c)

Eye Rhyme

d)

Simile

3.

This line of poetry has an example of?

He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell

(Pick 2 answers)

a)

alliteration

b)

hyperbole

c)

metaphor

d)

Simile

4.

This line of poetry has an example of?

And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

metaphor

d)

Simile

5.

This line of poetry has an example of?

"It's the cursèd cold, and it's got right hold till I'm chilled clean through to the bone.

a)

personification

b)

hyperbole

c)

metaphor

d)

alliteration

6.

These lines of poetry has an example of?

There wasn't a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven,

With a corpse half hid that I couldn't get rid, because of a promise given;

a)

imagery

b)

hyperbole

c)

couplet

d)

alliteration

7.

These lines of poetry has an example of?

It was icy cold, but the hot sweat rolled down my cheeks, and I don't know why;

And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.

a)

end rhyme

b)

eye rhyme

c)

internal rhyme

d)

slant rhyme

8.

This line of poetry has an example of?

Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.

a)

end rhyme

b)

simile

c)

internal rhyme

d)

slant rhyme

9.

These lines of poetry have an example of?

Ready to ride and spread the alarm

Through every Middlesex village and farm

(Pick two answers)

a)

end rhyme

b)

Hyperbole

c)

understatement

d)

allusion

10.

This line of poetry hasan example of?

The muster of men at the barrack door

a)

end rhyme

b)

alliteration

c)

connotation

d)

denotation