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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
Which of these completes this sentence with alliteration?
Are you hungry? Let's find a cafe for ________, __________ and __________.
egg, chips and cola
coffee, cakes and tea
coffee, cakes and cola
fish, chips and coffee
Which word means:
The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Idiom
Assonance
Rhythm
What two letters could you use in an alliterative sentence because they make the same sound?
c & k
p & t
o & q
b & m
A word that imitates a sound, for example BUZZ and POP, is called:
Onomatopoeia
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Idiom
What onomatopoeia does this image show?
booo
bark
bzzzz
baaa
What onomatopoeia does this image show?
roar
crash
pop
bam
What onomatopoeia does this image show?
ring
bing
boom
pow
Which THREE words create the alliteration? Kim carefully cut the knot.
Kim
carefully
cut
knot
The BEST way to use the words pink, poppies, Paula planted and pretty to form an alliteration is
Paula planted pretty pink poppies.
Pretty pink poppies planted Paula.
Pink pretty poppies Paula planted.
Paula planted poppies pretty pink.
Finish the following rhyming couplet:
Roses are red, violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet and so are____.
too
you
yours
bee
To find the rhyming scheme of a poem, I need to look at the _________ word in each line.
first
third
last
A group of words in one row of a poem is called a:
stanza
couplet
line
How many lines does a couplet have?
6
2
1
The following is an example of a rhyming ___________ :
I saw a giant bear,
He was right over there!
Quatrain
Couplet
Neither
Pair
What is the rhyming pattern of the poem below?
If you always try your best,
Then you'll never have to wonder,
About what you could have done,
If you had summoned all your thunder.
AA, BB
A, B, C, B
A, B, CC
Words that imitate a sound
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Alliteration
This is an example of a/an:
A tutor who tooted the flute,
tried to tutor two tooter's to toot.
simile
metaphor
alliteration
Identify the rhyme scheme for the following poem.
Mr. Brown the Circus Clown
Mr. Brown, the circus clown
puts his clothes on upside down.
He wears his hat upon his toes
and socks and shoes upon his nose.
(a)
Identify the rhyme scheme for the following poem.
Today I Had a Rotten Day
Today I had a rotten day.
As I was coming in from play
I accidentally stubbed my toes
and tripped and fell and whacked my nose.
(a)
Fill in the blank using onomatopoeia.
I couldn't sleep with the sound of the clock,__________ __________.
(a)
