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WorksheetsPoetry Terms & Figurative Language (Honors 9th)
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 27mins
toasted the emerald grass
until it smelled of warmth
and green and life.
It was July, and my heart
soaked up the air warmth
until it sang of joy
and love and life.
How many stanzas in the poem above?
“I shall throw you on a black ship and send you to the mainland, To King Echetos, destroyer of all mortal men, Who will cut off your nostrils with a sharp bronze sword; He will tear of your private parts and give them to the dogs to eat raw.” --
Homer, The Odyssey
Which word best describes the tone of the passage?
Threatening
Amused
Proud
Direct
How do you tell a poem's rhyme scheme?
The rhythm of a poem.
Rhymes occurring inside the lines of a poem.
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem (marked with the alphabet)
The "paragraph" of a poem.
What's the rhyme scheme?
You just want attention, you don't want my heart
Maybe you just hate the thought of me with someone new
Yeah, you just want attention, I knew from the start
You're just making sure I'm never gettin' over you
AAAA
AABB
ABAB
ABCB
What is the definition of "apostrophe" in poetry?
an address to an absent or imaginary person
the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
passing reference or indirect mention to something outside of the text
a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Language in which the words are meant to be interpreted imaginatively is...
figurative
literal
What is denotation?
Literal meaning of a word.
Attitude or emotion a word makes you feel.
Person, place, or thing.
Is this an example of denotation?
Chicken - a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one.
Yes.
Not really...
Maybeeee!
What is connotation?
Literal meaning of a word.
Attitude or emotion a word makes you feel.
The prefix of a word.
Read the sentences and answer the question. Winning by seven strokes, Tiger Woods won the tournament. Winning by seven strokes, Tiger Woods dominated the tournament. How does the connotation of the word dominated in the second sentence convey the author’s purpose?
It shows that he won by a small margin.
It emphasizes that he easily won.
It implies that he played with arrogance and pride.
It implies that he cheated in order to win.
Words that sound like the objects or actions they refer to. Sound like the sound the word makes.
rhyme
alliteration
imagery
onomatopoeia
___________ is something literal in the story that stands for or evokes an abstract idea.
symbolism
alliteration
metaphor
simile
A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art outside of the text itself.
Allusion
Free Verse
Rhythm
Enjambment
"Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay." - Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Referring to the Biblical Garden of Eden is what type of figurative language?
Alliteration
Allusion
Oxymoron
Metaphor
”A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open”.-Frank Zappa
onomatopoeia
simile
metaphor
alliteration
“I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.” - Flannery O'Connor, Good Country People
hyperbole
allusion
personification
idiom
“It's a piece of cake.”
hyperbole
idiom
allusion
simile
“Conscience is a man’s compass.” - Vincent Van Gogh
simile
alliteration
metaphor
idiom
Big baby, jumbo shrimp, and civil war are all examples of...
Onomatopoeia
Puns
Idioms
Oxymorons
What type of figurative language in this stanza?
"Hear the loud alarum bells -
Brazen Bells!
What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!"
- "The Bells," Edgar Allan Poe
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Assonance
What is an Anaphora?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive sentences
The repetition of any word or phrase anywhere in a text
The repetition of a word or phrase anywhere in consecutive sentences
The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of consecutive sentences
Identify the Anaphora.
Give me a sign that all is possible. Give me a sign that all hope for me is not lost. Oh, Spirit, kind Spirit, I beseech thee: give me a sign.
oh, Spirit, kind Spirit,
that all
give me a sign
I beseech thee
Which term means the repetition of consonant sounds inside or at the end of words?
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
Synecdoche
I balked when I saw the tall cop in the hall; I knew he was looking for you.
What is this an examle of?
alliteration
assonance
consonance
personification
Figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.
(ex. The pen is mightier than the sword. Pen represents writing)
metonymy
synecdoche
Figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
(Example: I got a new set of wheels. Wheels represents the car)
metonymy
synecdoche
"The western wave was all aflame.
The day was well nigh done!"
This is an example of a synecdoche in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. What does the "wave" refer to?
A wave
The ocean
High Fives
Sea Animals
"In his poem "Out, Out," Robert Frost describes a boy who has cut himself with a saw holding his bleeding hand up "as if to keep/The life from spilling."
This is an example of metonymy. What is life referring to?
His soul
Milk
Blood
Water
“Blue moon, you saw me standing alone/Without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own.” — Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
The singer addressing the moon directly is what type of figurative language?
apostrophe
allusion
symbol
motif
