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Elements of Poetry

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which literary device do you see?

Lake is Like a Mirror

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

alliteration

2.

Which literary device to do you see?

The pizza called my name.

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

3.

Which literary device to do you see?

Kirsten has the worst ideas ever.

a)

metaphor

b)

alliteration

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

4.

Which literary device to do you see?

"Mom told you about it a thousand times!"

a)

metaphor

b)

alliteration

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

5.

Which literary device to do you see?

School is a prison.

a)

metaphor

b)

alliteration

c)

simile

d)

personification

6.

Which literary device to do you see?

I love feasting on fantastic fried foods at the fair.

a)

metaphor

b)

alliteration

c)

onomatopeia

d)

personification

7.

Which literary device to do you see?

The smoke detector warned my family about a fire in my house.

a)

metaphor

b)

alliteration

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

8.

Which literary device to do you see?

My husband is a knight in shining armor.

a)

metaphor

b)

alliteration

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

9.

What is the theme?

a)

What the text is about

b)

The different things that happen inside a text

c)

Something to annoy students

d)

The message the author tries to tell us

10.

Select what applies to the following (3):

Stanza

a)

Words that sound the same

b)

A literary device

c)

Divides a poem

d)

Has many lines in it

e)

A bit like a paragraph in a poem

11.

Select what applies to the following (3):

Line

a)

Words that sound the same

b)

A literary device

c)

Divides a poem

d)

Is inside a stanza

e)

A bit like a sentence in a poem

12.

What type of poem is this?

Love is like winter

Warm breaths thaw cold hearts until

one day the spring comes

a)

haiku

b)

free verse

c)

narrative

d)

sonnet

e)

I don't know, please don't ask me this

13.

What type of poem is this?

My sister calls me tofu

because I am so soft

easily falling apart.


I wish I were tough

and full of fire, like ginger-

like her.

a)

haiku

b)

free verse

c)

acrostic

d)

sonnet

14.

What type of poem is this?

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

a)

haiku

b)

free verse

c)

narrative

d)

sonnet

15.

What type of poem is this?

a)

haiku

b)

concrete

c)

narrative

d)

sonnet

16.

What type of poem is this?


How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace.


I love thee to the level of every day's

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right.

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.


I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,


Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

a)

haiku

b)

concrete

c)

narrative

d)

sonnet