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Poetry Quiz #1

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 54mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1.What is the meter in a poem?

a)

A. The number of paragraphs

b)

B. the beat of a poem

c)

C. The flow of words

d)

D. When nearby words have similar endings

2.

2.Find the example of alliteration

a)

 Twenty boats sailed from the docks on their way to battle

b)

 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, I will be your friend to the edge of the sea

c)

 Twenty boats shipped out from the soft shore surely on their way to share the news

d)

 Jellicle cats are the way of some of us we dance to the rhythm and give to the beat

3.

Peter Piper Picked a Pickled Pepper is an example of what

a)

Rhythm

b)

Symbolism

c)

Rhyme

d)

Alliteration

4.

Who is the narrator of a poem?

a)

Stanza

b)

Speaker

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

5.

"The sky shouted at us in cacophonous thunder" is an example of what?

a)

Personification

b)

Meter

c)

Rhythm

d)

Metaphor

6.

The flow of words, how certain words are emphasized in patterns is what?

a)

Rhyme

b)

Metaphor

c)

Meter

d)

Rhythm

7.

What is a stanza

a)

Paragraphs in a poem

b)

Figurative language

c)

a poem's narrator

d)

the repetition of nearby sounds

8.

What is an example of a metaphor?

a)

The lightning and thunder terrified the sailors like never before

b)

I am the sun

c)

The desert was as hot as the Earth's core

d)

Your eyes are like the sun

9.

How many syllables does the following line have? I had some horses and some funny little goats.

a)

12

b)

10

c)

8

d)

14

10.
What is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words?
a)
Repetition 
b)
Alliteration
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Rhyme 
11.
What gives human qualities to something that is non-human?
a)
Sensory Language 
b)
Metaphor
c)
Onomatopoeia 
d)
Personification 
12.
What describes one thing as if it were something else.
a)
Simile 
b)
Metaphor
c)
Hyperbole
d)
Onomatopoeia 
13.
What is writing or speech that is  not meant to be taken literally?
a)
Hyperbole 
b)
Figurative Language 
c)
Sensory Language 
d)
Metaphor 
14.
What uses like or as to compare two apparently unlike things?
a)
Metaphor 
b)
Hyperbole 
c)
Simile 
d)
Repetition 
15.
What is personification?
a)
Giving human like things to non human like things
b)
 A comparison that uses like or as
c)

when the form of a poem matches the poem's content

d)
Use of a object to stand for a thing or idea
16.
What structure is poetry written in?
a)
Sentences & paragraphs
b)
Sentences & stanzas
c)
Lines & paragraphs
d)
Lines & stanzas
17.
Imagery appeals to the ______________.
a)
brain
b)
senses
c)
crazy people
d)
memory
18.
What device is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
a)

Personification

b)
Rhyme
c)
Meter
d)
Simile