WorksheetsUnit 3 Poetry Review
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the rhyme scheme of the following stanza?
“Fraud!” cried the maddened thousands, and echo answered “Fraud!”
But one scornful look from Casey and the audience was awed.
They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain,
And they knew that Casey wouldn’t let that ball go by again.
ABAB
ABCD
ABBC
AABB
Onomatopoeia is
A comparison using like or as (EX: she is as busy as a bee)
A comparison that does not use like or as (Ex: she is a busy bee).
The use of words that sound like the word they are referring to (EX: Buzz, hiss, splat).
An exaggerated statement (EX: I am so hungry. I could eat a horse!).
Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
proven theory
jumbo shrimp
worldwide welcome
whining schoolboy
The speaker of a poem is
the voice of the poem. Not always the poet.
The main character in the poem.
The narrator
The antagonist
Which of the following is a metaphor?
she spews gusts and thunder
flame is the imprisoned lightning
there went up a muffled roar like the beating of storm waves on a stern and distant shore
Then from five thousand throats and more there rose a lusty yell;
What type of poem is this?
O’ foolish ducklings,
you know my old, green pond is
watched by a weasel.
lyric
limerick
haiku
concrete
What type of poem is this?
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I know not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
haiku
lyric
limerick
concrete
Which of the following poetic excerpts is an example of alliteration?
Stars move like armor
Wanted Wear
The potato winked his eyes
Rivers of imagination flow
Which of the following poetic excerpts is an example of a simile?
I am so hungry for blue
The Vocabulary of a river
What is the sound for red
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Which one is an example of a metaphor?
Prejudice hurts like iron rods
Serious snakes slink through the fields
The fly buzzed before it was swatted
The chains of discrimination
Which one of the following has an example of onomatopoeia?
Imagine wind is syrup
The sky wears bracelets
If only Casey could get a whack at that
Use the moon as a bowl
"Teeth clenched in hate" is an example of
personification
euphemism
synecdoche
oxymoron
"At last the garbage reached so high it touched the sky" is an example of
slang
hyperbole
pathetic fallacy
metaphor
Which one is slant rhyme?
fraud/awed
strain/again
fraud/strain
awed/again
A poem that expresses feeling and emotion is a
concrete
lyric
haiku
limerick
Which poem has three lines and 17 syllables?
concrete
lyric
haiku
limerick
