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Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

They're is an example of a (a)  

2.

Homework is an example of a (a)   .

3.

frenemy is an example of a (a)   .

4.

frenemy comes from the words (a)   .

5.

"Her eyes are like marbles" is a (a)   .

6.

"The calm lake was a crystal clear mirror" is an example of a (a)   .

7.

"The trees danced under the wind" is an example of...

a)

Personification

b)

Imagery

c)

Irony

8.

Look at this part from a poem - which technique isn't used here?


1. I’m like tripping right now I have suitcase fever.

2. Dude, man, pare, three people can be the same.

3. Except he’s not who he says he is, pare. He’s a sneeze with Chinese blood: Ha Ching!


(CoÑotations, Paolo Manalo)

a)

Poetic license

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Simile

d)

Imagery

9.

Which instance of poetic license is used in these lines?


I dream of magic lines but they elude me.

Well, sometimes.


(Quoditian Fever, Howard Kerr)

a)

Grammar change

b)

Spelling change

c)

Space change

d)

Form change

10.

What is the effect of the poetic license used in these lines?


A vindictive old crone called Skyla

Her comments could not be more vile’a

She will give folk such flack

Stabbing them in the back

Well 'madam' I don’t like your style’a*


(BAD MOUTH BRIGADE, Jan Allison)

a)

It gives the poem a distinctive form.

b)

It gives the poem a distinctive rhyme.

c)

It gives the poem a distinctive language.

d)

It gives the poem a distinctive format.