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Poetry Practice Test

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 42mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many stanzas are in the poem "Ode to Salt"?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

29

e)

36

2.

How would you label the rhyme scheme in the first four lines of "Ode to Salt"?

a)

ABAB

b)

ABCD

c)

ABBB

d)

BACD

3.

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."

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

personification

c)

alliteration

d)

simile

4.
"The voice of salt in the desert" is an example of what poetic device?
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
personification
c)
alliteration
d)
simile
5.
What poetic device is used here: "taste imparts to every seasoned dish your ocean essence; the smallest, miniature wave from the salt cellar reveals to us more than domestic whiteness; in it, we taste infinitude."
a)
theme
b)
imagery
c)
irony
d)
satirical meaning
6.
Which poetic device is used three times here: "discoverer on the high seas, (1) earliest sailor of the unknown, (2) shifting byways of the foam. (3) Dust of the sea"
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
personification
d)
satirical meaning
7.
If the poet had said, "salt is like the discoverer of the high seas", what poetic device would it be?
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
analogy
d)
pun
8.
In this poem, light is a symbol for:
a)
life
b)
song
c)
creation
d)
God
9.
What is the tone?
a)
The author is in awe of salt.
b)
Salt stinks.
c)
Neutral
d)
In life, appreciate the small things.
10.
The author's words help the reader determine the tone. What is this called?
a)
word choice/diction
b)
point-of-view
c)
author's purpose
d)
imagery
11.
Which words help convey the tone?
a)
sing, light, essence, infinitude
b)
skin, solitudes, mournful, oblivion
c)
whitness, taste, seasoned, miniature
d)
miniature, smallest, powder sprinkling
12.
When the salt is described as moaning, which figurative device is being used?
a)
personification
b)
alliteration
c)
verbal irony
d)
rhyme
13.
Which poetic device is this?
a)
pun
b)
hyperbole
c)
imagery
d)
satirical meaning
14.

Match the following

a)

"The salt I saw in the salt cellars I once saw in the salt mines"

1.

literal meaning

b)

"The skin of the salt mines sings with a smothered mouth."

2.

figurative meaning

c)

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."

3.

verbal irony

d)

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.

4.

dramatic irony

e)

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.

5.

situational irony