WorksheetsPoetry Test Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
"Abuelito Who" is a poem about
the speaker's memories of a family member
the speaker's anger over a parent's punishment
the speaker's first love
the speaker's misunderstanding of illness
The entire poem "Fame is a Bee" is a (n)
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
allusion
Check all examples of personification.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
a river would stop
an ocean would never laugh
it has a sting
"Oranges" by Gary Soto is
a narrative poem
a sonnet
a limerick
a lyrical poem
The speaker in "Mother to Son" is
Langston Hughes
the son
the child
the mother
"Abandoned Farmhouse" paints a picture of
A poor family living in a home
A beautiful, isolated home
The scene of a place where some thing tragic happened
A messy, dirty home
A poet who was a part of a period called "The Harlem Renaissance"
Maya Angelou
Langston Hughes
Edgar Allen Poe
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe was known for writing
Happy, upbeat poems
gothic horror stories and poems
romantic novels
narrative poems
The poem "Mother to Son" uses what literary device?
dialect
personification
allusion
rhythm
Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poem is called
The Caged Bird
The Raven
The Turkey
The Dark Night
"is a doorknob tied to a sour stick" is an example of:
a metaphor
a simile
personification
allusion
"While I weep - while I weep!" is an example of
metaphor
personification
repetition
end rhyme
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.
is an example of:
a metaphor
an allusion
a hyperbole
a simile
The syllable pattern of a haiku is...
three syllables, five syllables, seven syllables
five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables
two syllables, three syllables, two syllables
five syllables, five syllables, seven syllables
The mood of the speaker in the poem "A Dream Within a Dream" is
cheerful
sad
angry
loved
Emily Dickinson became famous
after her death.
after her first poem was published.
when she was 25.
when she got married.
ee cummings is known for
writing poems about nature.
using unusual punctuation and capitalization in his poems.
using allusions in his poetry.
writing gothic horror.
The theme of "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is
nothing in life is precious.
life is always changing.
everything good will leave you.
life will give you gold.
What does the line "I shall not live in vain" mean in the poem "If I can stop one heart from breaking" by Emily Dickinson?
It means the speaker is vain.
It means that the speaker's life will have purpose.
It means that the speaker is jealous of others.
It means that the speaker wants to be famous.
Robert Frost's most famous poem is called:
"The Road Not Taken"
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
"The Raven"
"The Caged Bird"
