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Figurative Language/Elements of Poetry

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A repeating pattern of words, phrases or stanzas.

a)

Repetition

b)

Alliteration

c)

Imagery

d)

Metaphor

2.

Extreme exaggeration....

a)

hyperbole

b)

personification

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

sense words

3.

A comparison of two unlike things using like or as...

a)

metaphor

b)

simile

c)

idiom

d)

personification

4.

The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words...

a)

sensed words

b)

repetition

c)

alliteration

d)

rhyme scheme

5.

Groups of lines that make up the divisions of a poem...

a)

plot diagram

b)

paragraph

c)

monologue

d)

stanza

6.

Identify the type of figurative language used in the sentence below:

Karima played her music so loud that Ms.Lamb's ears fell off.

a)

hyperbole

b)

simile

c)

personification

d)

metaphor

7.

Words that appeal to the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch....

a)

simile

b)

metaphors

c)

sense words

d)

idiom

8.

Language used to create a special effect...

a)

figurative language

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

alliteration

d)

simile

9.

Pictures created in your mind while reading through the use of figurative language or vivid descriptions ...

a)

imagery

b)

stanzas

c)

lines

d)

figurative language

10.

Gallop gallantly on the grassland plains is an example of...

a)

repetition

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

simile

d)

alliteration