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Diagnostic Quiz-Elements of poetry

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which word means "the feelings or emotions a poem is trying to show"?

a)

Mood

b)

Tone

c)

Alliteration

d)

Rhythm

2.

A paragraph in a poem is also called a _______.

a)

Paragraph

b)

Group

c)

Stanza

d)

Lines

3.

What is a group of words in a poem called?

a)

A beat

b)

A rhythm

c)

A group

d)

A line

4.

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

What are words that imitate sounds?

a)

personification

b)

simile

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

Metaphor

6.

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

a)

Shine bright like a diamond.

b)

I'm hungry like the wolf.

c)

Love is a battlefield

7.

Which sentence below shows personification?

a)

The air was cold.

b)

The sun is bright yellow.

c)

The cat raced down the hall.

d)

The leaves danced in the wind.

8.

Which sentence below is a simile?

a)

She runs as fast as a cheetah.

b)

She runs fast.

c)

She is a fast runner.

d)

She and a cheetah run fast.

9.

Which of these lines has the same rhythm (meter) as

"One banana two banana"?

a)

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

b)

I'm a monkey you're a monkey

c)

I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream

d)

Howdy partner

10.

Peter Piper picked a peck of peppers.


This is an example of what poetic sound device?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Haiku

c)

Alliteration

d)

Imagery

11.

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry is called ____________________.

a)

Meter

b)

Rhyme

c)

Personification

d)

line

12.

Which type of poem does NOT have a regular meter or rhyme scheme?

a)

Haiku

b)

Limerick

c)

Sonnet

d)

Free verse

13.

The way the speaker seems to feel about the subject is the poem's ________________.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Tone

c)

Symbolism

d)

Rhythm

14.

What is the rhyme scheme of this limerick?


“There was an Old Man with a beard,

Who said, ‘It is just as I feared!

Two Owls and a Hen,

Four Larks and a Wren,

Have all built their nests in my beard!”

a)

ABCAA

b)

ABBCA

c)

ABABA

d)

AABBA

15.

What is true about poetry?

a)

Poetry is always written in strict form.

b)

Poets choose words for their meaning and sound.

c)

Unlike prose, poetry is written in straightforward language.

d)

Poets never read their poems aloud.