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Poetry Quiz!!!

Total questions: 46

Worksheet time: 2hrs 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words?
a)
Repetition 
b)
Alliteration
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Rhyme 
2.
What gives human qualities to something that is non-human?
a)
Sensory Language 
b)
Metaphor
c)
Onomatopoeia 
d)
Personification 
3.
What is the use of any element of language, more than once?
a)
Repetition 
b)
Rhyme
c)
Alliteration 
d)
Rhythm 
4.
What describes one thing as if it were something else.
a)
Simile 
b)
Metaphor
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Onomatopoeia 
5.
What is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses? 
a)
Alliteration 
b)
Onomatopoeia 
c)
Hyperbole 
d)
Sensory Language 
6.
What uses like or as to compare two apparently unlike things?
a)
Metaphor 
b)
Hyperbole 
c)
Simile 
d)
Repetition 
7.
What is writing or speech that is  not meant to be taken literally?
a)
Hyperbole 
b)
Figurative Language 
c)
Sensory Language 
d)
Metaphor 
8.
What is the use of words that imitate sounds? (Crash, bang, hiss, slpat)
a)
Sensory Language 
b)
Hyperbole 
c)
Figurative Language 
d)
Onomatopoeia 
9.
Alliteration?
a)
It's not an optical illusion; it just looks like one.
b)
Dyslexics of the world untie!
c)
Help stamp out, eliminate and abolish redundancy!
d)

Darn dogs dancing.

10.
A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space. This is like the paragraph of poetry
a)
stanza
b)
refrain
c)
ballad
d)
chorus
11.
What is personification?
a)
Giving human like things to non human like things
b)
 A comparison that uses like or as
c)
a comparison that do
d)
Use of a object to stand for a thing or idea
12.
What structure is poetry written in?
a)
Sentences & paragraphs
b)
Sentences & stanzas
c)
Lines & paragraphs
d)
Lines & stanzas
13.
Imagery appeals to the ______________.
a)
brain
b)
senses
c)
crazy people
d)
memory
14.
What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
a)
Refrain
b)
Rhyme
c)
Meter
d)
Simile
15.

The chirping crickets filled the empty night air

a)

Metaphor

b)

Imagery

c)

Simile

d)

Personification

16.

The grass grew green in the graveyard

a)

Consonance

b)

Alliteration

c)

Assonance

d)

Metaphor

17.

Despite their mother’s warnings, the children chose to chew with their mouths open

a)

Consonance

b)

Assonance

c)

Alliteration

d)

Metaphor

18.
The author's attitude toward the subject or text
a)
Connotation
b)
Denotation
c)
Mood
d)
Tone
19.
How the reader feels while reading the piece of writing 
a)
Connotation
b)
Denotation
c)
Tone
d)
Mood
20.
The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song
a)
Sound Devices
b)
Stanza
c)
Connotation
d)
Rhyme pattern/scheme
21.
The message of the poem
a)
Theme
b)
Tone
c)
Imagery 
d)
Mood
22.
The feeling associated with a word 
a)
Theme
b)
Tone
c)
Connotation
d)
Denotation
23.
The use of an image or an object to stand for something else 
a)
Imagery
b)
Symbolism
c)
Theme
d)
Denotation
24.
A word or phrase that does not mean exactly what it says
a)
Figurative Meaning
b)
Literal Meaning
c)
Connotation
d)
Denotation
25.
A word or phrase that means exactly what it says
a)
Figurative Meaning
b)
Literal Meaning
c)
Simile 
d)
Metaphor 
26.
The dictionary definition of the word
a)
Figurative Meaning
b)
Literal Meaning
c)
Connotation
d)
Denotation 
27.
An extreme exaggeration
a)
Personification
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Alliteration
d)
Metaphor 
28.

What makes a poem a poem?

a)

It has musical qualities

b)

It uses condensed language

c)

It features intense feelings

d)

It rhymes

29.

How can you add musical qualities to your poem?

a)

Use rhyme, repetition, and rhythm

b)

Use alliteration and anaphora

c)

Use metaphors and similes

d)

Use imagery, apostrophe, and hyperbole

30.

How can writers add intense feelings to their poetry?

a)

Use rhyme, alliteration, and hyperbole

b)

Use metaphors, similes, and symbolism

c)

Use imagery, hyperbole, and oxymoron

d)

Use metonymy, similes, and imagery

31.

What is an enjambed line in poetry?

a)

A line that ends with a punctuation mark

b)

A line that is short and concise

c)

A line that is written in all capital letters

d)

A line that does not end with a punctuation mark and continues onto the next line

32.

Explain the purpose of enjambment in poetry.

a)

Enjambment is used to create a sense of flow and movement in poetry.

b)

Enjambment is used to create a sense of stillness and stagnation in poetry.

c)

Enjambment is used to create a sense of confusion and disorientation in poetry.

d)

Enjambment is used to create a sense of abruptness and interruption in poetry.

33.

Identify the enjambed line in the following poem: '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;'

a)

I wandered lonely as a cloud

b)

A host, of golden daffodils;

c)

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

d)

When all at once I saw a crowd

34.

A _______ is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line

a)

Stanza

b)

Line Break

c)

Line

d)

Rhyme

35.

In general, the repetition of the syllables at the end of a line of verse or poetry. (Words that have the same sound when spoken.)

a)

Rhyme Scheme

b)

Stanza

c)

Line

d)

Rhyme

36.

Poems that do not have a rhyme scheme

a)

Non-rhyming Poetry

b)

Rhymeless Poetry

c)

Free Verse/Blank Verse Poetry

d)

Poetry Sans Rhymes

37.

When determining the rhyme scheme of a poem or song, we generally use ___________ to indicate the rhyme scheme.

a)

Rhymes

b)

Letters

c)

Numbers

d)

Roman Numerals

38.

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? ("Dreams" by Langston Hughes)

Hold fast to dreams/

For if dreams die/

Life is a broken-winged bird/

That cannot fly./

a)

ABAB

b)

AABB

c)

ABAC

d)

ABCB

39.

What is the rhyme scheme of "What are Heavy" by Christina Rossetti?

What are heavy? Sea-sand and sorrow/

What are brief? Today and tomorrow/

What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth/

What are deep? The ocean and truth.

(a)  

40.
_________ is the feeling the reader gets as he/she reads the text.
a)
mood
b)
tone
41.
Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through ________.
a)
pictures
b)
height
c)
words
d)
funny faces
42.
What is an example of an alliteration?
a)
The vase flew off of the shelf. 
b)
Powerful pandas punch parrots.
c)
The plant liked to fly.
d)
I like to eat pie
43.
What is the narrator of a poem called?
a)
Author
b)
Speaker
c)
Narrator
d)
Main character
44.
What structure is poetry written in?
a)
Sentences & paragraphs
b)
Sentences & stanzas
c)
Lines & paragraphs
d)
Lines & stanzas
45.
The moon asked the stars to dance.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole
46.
The moonless night was as dark as black velvet.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
hyperbole