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Poetry Preparation

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the technique: exaggerating for a purpose

a)

alliteration

b)

simile

c)

hyperbole

d)

assonance

2.

Name the technique: strong pictures or ideas are created in the mind of the reader.

a)

repetition

b)

hyperbole

c)

imagery

d)

enjambment

3.

Name the technique: when a poem has a beat or metre

a)

rhythm

b)

rhyme

c)

sibilance

d)

repetition

4.

Name the technique: a sentence continues beyond the end of the line or verse.

a)

enjambment

b)

anaphora

c)

rhythm

d)

rhyme

5.

Name the technique: use of informal language

a)

convention

b)

consonance

c)

connotation

d)

colloquial

6.

Name the technique: a pair of lines that rhyme

a)

couplet

b)

triplet

c)

pair

d)

partner lines

7.

Which of the following is the name for a verse of poetry?

a)

Paragraph

b)

Chunk

c)

Stanza

d)

Meter

8.

Identify the technique: The furrow followed free

(a)  

9.

Identify the technique: She walks in beauty, like the night

(a)  

10.

Identify the technique: he flew into the room

(a)  

11.

Identify the technique: How can you tell what class I’m from?

(a)  

12.

Identify the technique: Sudden successive fights of bullets streak the silence

(a)  

13.

Identify the technique: Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys.

(a)  

14.

Identify the technique:

I was angry with my friend:

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

(a)  

15.

Identify the technique: And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea

(a)  

16.

Identify the technique: Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was;

(a)  

17.

Identify the technique: the merciless iced east winds that knive us…

(a)  

18.

Identify the technique: Slowly our ghosts drag home

(a)  

19.

Identify the technique:

Their’s not to make reply,

Their’s not to reason why,

Their’s but to do and die:

(a)  

20.

Identify the type of language: I am not de problem (clue in bold)

(a)