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Poetry Revision

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What poetic device is this: 'The air was warm with fever'?

a)

Personification

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Rhyme

d)

Alliteration

2.

What is SMILE in poetry?

a)

What we are told to do when we look sad.

b)

A framework to help analyse poems.

c)

A way of living; a mantra.

d)

A way to analyse persuasive features.

3.

What poetic device is this: 'her eyes were bright like the stars'?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Personification

4.

What poetic device is this: 'I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse'?

a)

Personification

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Alliteration

d)

Rhyme

5.

What are paragraphs in poetry called?

a)

Paragraphs

b)

Verses

c)

Lines

d)

Stanzas

6.

Which of the following are conventions (something you will find in all poems) of poetry?

a)

Imagery

b)

Rhyme

c)

Stanzas and lines

d)

Stage directions

7.

A text type convention is...

a)

A feature commonly found in that text type.

b)

How a table is made.

c)

Something that is unconventional.

d)

A way of reading a text.

8.

A simile is a defined as...

a)

Using like or as to make a comparison.

b)

Comparing two things literally.

c)

Using sound imagery.

d)

The same as a metaphor.

9.

A metaphor is defined as...

a)

Using like or as to make a comparison.

b)

Comparing two things literally.

c)

Giving human characteristics to an object.

d)

Using tactile imagery.

10.

Which of the following are examples of personification?

a)

He was as brave as a lion.

b)

The boy was cold like ice.

c)

The flames ate hungrily at the burning house.

d)

Lighting danced across the sky.

11.

What does the S in SMILE stand for?

a)

Structure

b)

Sibilance

c)

Song

d)

Sorrow

12.

What does the M in SMILE stand for?

a)

Macho

b)

Manga

c)

Meaning

d)

Mastodon

13.

What does the I in SMILE stand for?

a)

Igloo

b)

Ignatius

c)

Indigo

d)

Imagery

14.

What does the L in SMILE stand for?

a)

Language

b)

Literature

c)

Literacy

d)

Logos

15.

What does the E in SMILE stand for?

a)

Event

b)

Energy

c)

Effect

d)

End