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Poetry & Figurative Language

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A play on words or joke.

a)

Ode

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Pun

d)

Alliteration

2.

The message or moral of a story.

a)

Symbol

b)

Theme

c)

Stanza

d)

Resolution

3.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

Orange.

Orange who?

Orange you glad I didn't say Banana!!

What is the an example of?

a)

A Riddle

b)

A Poem

c)

A Pun

d)

An Ode

4.

A poem expressing my love for coffee would be what type of poem?

a)

Ode

b)

Narrative

c)

Haiku

d)

Concrete

5.

Sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch are the 5 senses. What poetry device uses these to create a picture in our mind?

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Alliteration

d)

Imagery

6.

Identify the metaphor in the following stanza of "Dreams" by Langston Hughes?


Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow

a)

Hold fast to dreams

b)

For when dreams go

c)

Life is a barren field

d)

Frozen with snow

7.

What poetic device or term can be found in these lines.

Belinda lived in a little white house,

With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,

And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,

And a cute, little pet dragon.

a)

Repetition

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Idiom

d)

Stanza

8.

When I was a kid we walked seven miles to school, uphill, barefoot, carrying a 50 pound sack of books.

This sentence is an example of what?

a)

Idiom

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Pun

d)

Repetition

9.

A poem that is in the shape of the subject.

a)

Ode

b)

Haiku

c)

Narrative

d)

Concrete

10.

Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers. Is an example of what?

a)

Rhyme

b)

Alliteration

c)

Stanza

d)

Imagery

11.

The beat of the poem.

a)

Rhythm

b)

Music

c)

Rhyme

d)

Stanza

12.

Words that have the same end sound are words that what?

a)

Repetition

b)

Alliteration

c)

Rhyme

d)

Hyperbole

13.

What type of poem is this?

Water rushes in,

Pulling and rushing away,

A day at the beach.

a)

Haiku

b)

Ode

c)

Narrative

d)

Concrete

14.

What type of figurative language is found in this poem?

Walking down the beach is like walking on a ray of sunshine and joy.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Idiom

d)

Simile

15.

What type of figurative language is being used in the following stanza of the poem "April Rain Song" by Langston Hughes?


Let the rain kiss you.

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

a)

Personification

b)

Pun

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

16.

"The Raven" is an example of what type of poem?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore

While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping

As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door

By - Edgar Allen Poe

a)

Haiku

b)

Narrative

c)

Ode

d)

Concrete

17.

The test was a "piece of cake."

a)

Imagery

b)

Ode

c)

Idiom

d)

Simile

18.

Boom! Pow! Ouch! Are examples of what type of figurative language?

a)

Simile

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Idiom

d)

Pun

19.

The repetition of an initial consonant sound is called ______________

a)

Alliteration

b)

Rhyme

c)

Stanza

d)

Theme

20.

A group of lines in a poem.

a)

Stanza

b)

Ode

c)

Concrete

d)

Rhyme

21.

A Japanese poem.

a)

Haiku

b)

Narrative

c)

Ode

d)

Concrete

22.

A poem about the sun that is shaped like the sun.

a)

Haiku

b)

Concrete

c)

Ode

d)

Stanza

23.

A poem that has characters, setting, and a plot, like a story.

a)

Ode

b)

Haiku

c)

Narrative

d)

Concrete

24.

Hickory Dickory Dock

The mouse ran up the Clock

What two word rhyme?

a)

Mouse & UP

b)

Hickory & Ran

c)

Dock & Clock

d)

The & Mouse