WorksheetsPoetry Review
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of the following is not a type of poem?
a haiku
a sonnet
a limerick
a news article
True or False: Poems must follow grammatical rules (rules of proper grammar.)
True
False
Alliteration, rhyme and onomatopoeia are all examples of...
prose
sound devices
image devices
meters
Which of the following does not use figurative language?
"The fog comes on little cat feet."
"Fog appeared in the harbor and city."
"The frog sat like a bump on a log in the fog."
"Fog fell over the lake like a ghostly waterfall."
Rhyming is when some words...
sound alike
sound exactly the same
are spelled the same way
have the same definition
What is the rhyme scheme in the poem excerpt in the picture?
ABBA
ABAB
AAAB
AABA
Which poetic device is used in the following line?
Paulina put the pretty pink petunias into pots.
personification
alliteration
onomatopoeia
metaphor
Which poetic device is used in the following line?
The water plopped into the lake in big droplets.
personification
alliteration
onomatopoeia
metaphor
Which poetic device is used in the following line?
The river swallowed the town whole.
personification
alliteration
onomatopoeia
simile
What is true about poetry?
Poetry is always written in strict form.
Poets choose words for their meaning and sound.
Unlike prose, poetry is written in straightforward language.
Poets never read their poems aloud.
One of the differences between haikus and sonnets is...
the number of adjectives used in the poems.
the number of lines in the poems.
the type of writer who composes the poems.
the types of verbs used in the poems.
Read the poem "The Book of Questions" by Pablo Neruda (in the picture.)
Based on the section about verses & stanzas, how is the poem organized?
It contains four stanzas with two lines each.
It contains two stanzas with four lines each.
It contains 25 lines arranged in one stanza.
It does not contain any stanzas.
Which of the excerpts is an example of personification?
Well, son, I’ll tell you:/ Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair./ It’s had tacks in it,/ And splinters,/ And boards torn up,/ And places with no carpet on the floors/ Bare.
I’d love to take a poem to lunch/ or treat it to a wholesome brunch/ of fresh cut fruit and apple crunch.
I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o'er vales and hills,/ When all at once I saw a crowd,/ A host, of golden daffodils;
The Moon’s a snowball. See the drifts/ Of white that cross the sphere./ The Moon’s a snowball, melted down/ A dozen times a year.
Read the excerpt from the poem “The Ecchoing Green” by William Blake (in the picture.)
Based on the section on rhyme scheme, what is the rhyme scheme in this poem?
ABAB
ABAC
ABBA
AABB
Read the poem “The Fog” by Carl Sandburg (in the picture.)
Based on the section on free verse, this poem is an example of free verse in part because...
it refers to an animal
it is written in the third person
its first line has three syllables
it doesn’t follow a specific rhyme scheme
Which of the following excerpts includes onomatopoeia?
Listen my children and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere/ On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:/ Hardly a man is now alive
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
It SHUSHES/ It hushes/ The loudness in the road./ It flitter-twitters,/ And laughs away from me.
What is true about poetry?
Poetry is always written in strict form.
Poets choose words for their meaning and sound.
Unlike prose, poetry is written in straightforward language.
Poets never read their poems aloud.
