WorksheetsThe Highwayman Poetic devices.
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What type of poem is "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes?
Narrative
Lyric
Freeverse
Haiku
What type of figurative language is used in the following line?
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.
alliteration
simile
metaphor
personification
What is the rhyme scheme in the stanza that lines end with these words?
trees
seas
moor
riding
riding
door
ababcb
abcabc
aa bb cc
aabccb
What type of figurative language is used in the following line?
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor.
alliteration
simile
metaphor
personification
What type of sound device is used in the following line?
And dark in the dark old inn yard a stable wicket creaked.
Alliteration
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
What poetic device does the following line NOT use?
His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like moldy hay,
alliteration
onomatopoeia
simile
metaphhor
What type of figurative language is in the following line?
Dumb as a dog he listened, and he heard the robber say---
simile
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
What type of figurative language is used in the following line?
His face burnt like a brand.
onomatopoeia
simile
metaphor
personification
Why is the following line imagery?
As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over his breast,
It uses language that appeals to the 5 senses.
It uses an exaggeration for effect.
It uses repetition of consonant sounds.
It compares two things using like or as.
What type of figurative language is the following line?
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.
hyperbole
simle
metaphor
onomatopoeia
What type of figurative language is used in the following line?
When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor,
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
What is the rhyme scheme in the stanza that lines end with these words?
sky
high
coat
highway
highway
throat
abc abc
aabccb
aa bb cc
aba cbc
What is the rhyme scheme in the stanza that lines end with these words?
noon
moon
moor
marching
marching
door
abc abc
aabccb
aa bb cc
aba cbc
What type of sound device is used in the following line?
They stretched and strained in the darkness,
Rhyme
alliteration
onomatopoeia
imagery
Why is the following line imagery?
And the blood of her veins, in the moonlight, throbbed to her love's refrain.
It uses an exaggeration for dramatic effect.
It uses repeated consonant sounds.
It uses human characteristics to describe something that is not human.
It uses words that appeal to the 5 senses.
What type of sound device is used in the following line?
Tlot-tlot; Tlot-tlot had they heard it? The horse hoofs ringing clear;
onomatopoeia
rhythm
rhyme
hyperbole
What type of figurative language is used in the following line?
Back, he spurred like a madman, shouting a curse to the sky,
Hyperbole
onomatopoeia
simile
metaphor
What type of figurative language is used in the following lines?
When they shot him down on the highway, Down like a dog on the highway,
alliteration
hyperbole
metaphor
simile
Why is "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes a narrative poem?
It is a poem with no regular patterns of rhyme, meter, or length of stanza.
It expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker in a musical way.
it is a humorous, 5 lined poem with a specific rhythm and rhyme scheme.
It has characters, setting, conflict and plot as well as rhythm and rhyme.
What type of sound device is used in the following line?
Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark innyard.
personification
rhyme
hyperbole
alliteration
