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WorksheetsPoetry & Figurative Language
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
A play on words or joke.
Ode
Hyperbole
Pun
Alliteration
The message or moral of a story.
Symbol
Theme
Stanza
Resolution
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Orange.
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say Banana!!
What is the an example of?
A Riddle
A Poem
A Pun
An Ode
A poem expressing my love for coffee would be what type of poem?
Ode
Narrative
Haiku
Concrete
Sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch are the 5 senses. What poetry device uses these to create a picture in our mind?
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
Imagery
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
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow
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.
Repetition
Hyperbole
Idiom
Stanza
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?
Idiom
Hyperbole
Pun
Repetition
A poem that is in the shape of the subject.
Ode
Haiku
Narrative
Concrete
Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers. Is an example of what?
Rhyme
Alliteration
Stanza
Imagery
The beat of the poem.
Rhythm
Music
Rhyme
Stanza
Words that have the same end sound are words that what?
Repetition
Alliteration
Rhyme
Hyperbole
What type of poem is this?
Water rushes in,
Pulling and rushing away,
A day at the beach.
Haiku
Ode
Narrative
Concrete
What type of figurative language is found in this poem?
Walking down the beach is like walking on a ray of sunshine and joy.
Metaphor
Personification
Idiom
Simile
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.
Personification
Pun
Metaphor
Simile
"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
Haiku
Narrative
Ode
Concrete
The test was a "piece of cake."
Imagery
Ode
Idiom
Simile
Boom! Pow! Ouch! Are examples of what type of figurative language?
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Idiom
Pun
The repetition of an initial consonant sound is called ______________
Alliteration
Rhyme
Stanza
Theme
A group of lines in a poem.
Stanza
Ode
Concrete
Rhyme
A Japanese poem.
Haiku
Narrative
Ode
Concrete
A poem about the sun that is shaped like the sun.
Haiku
Concrete
Ode
Stanza
A poem that has characters, setting, and a plot, like a story.
Ode
Haiku
Narrative
Concrete
Hickory Dickory Dock
The mouse ran up the Clock
What two word rhyme?
Mouse & UP
Hickory & Ran
Dock & Clock
The & Mouse
