WorksheetsPoetry Practice Test
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 42mins
How many stanzas are in the poem "Ode to Salt"?
1
2
3
29
36
How would you label the rhyme scheme in the first four lines of "Ode to Salt"?
ABAB
ABCD
ABBB
BACD
Which poetic device is used here in the opening lines of the "Ode to Salt"?: "This salt in the salt cellar I once saw in the salt mines."
onomatopoeia
personification
alliteration
simile
"The salt I saw in the salt cellars I once saw in the salt mines"
literal meaning
"The skin of the salt mines sings with a smothered mouth."
figurative meaning
Your sister puts in a cup of salt instead of sugar when she makes your birthday cake. You say, "It's pretty good, but I think it needs a little more salt."
verbal irony
The audience knows that the bad guy put poison in the salt, but the main character doesn't know and puts salt on his french fries.
dramatic irony
You're hungry and the only food you have in the house is milk, salt, and pickles. You make pickle pudding because you're desperate and starving. It actually tastes delicious.
situational irony
