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Poetry

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Pictures created with words

a)

Rhyme

b)

Imagery

c)

Meter

d)

Repetition

2.

Certain words used over and over and over

a)

Rhyme

b)

Imagery

c)

Meter

d)

Repetition

3.

Sound pattern that is created by stressed and unstressed syllables

a)

Rhyme

b)

Imagery

c)

Meter

d)

Repetition

4.

Words that sound alike except for the beginning sound

a)

Rhyme

b)

Imagery

c)

Meter

d)

Repetition

5.

Repetition of the same beginning sound

a)

Rhyme Scheme

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

6.

Use of a word that imitates or suggests the sound the word means

a)

Rhyme Scheme

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

7.

Humorous poem, 5 lines

a)

Limerick

b)

Simile

c)

Narrative (ballad)

d)

Assonance

8.

Poetry that tells a story

a)

Limerick

b)

Simile

c)

Narrative (ballad)

d)

Assonance

9.

A pattern of end rhymes

a)

Rhyme Scheme

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

10.

Giving an inanimate object human attributes

a)

Rhyme Scheme

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Personification

d)

Alliteration

11.

Repeated use of the same vowel sound

a)

Limerick

b)

Simile

c)

Narrative (ballad)

d)

Assonance

12.

A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

a)

Limerick

b)

Simile

c)

Narrative (ballad)

d)

Assonance

13.

What poetry element is illustrated in the line below?

The stars winked at me.

a)

Personification

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Rhyme Scheme

d)

Repetition

14.

What poetry element is illustrated in the line below?

The wind was wild. The wind was crazy.

a)

Personification

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Rhyme Scheme

d)

Repetition

15.

What poetry element is illustrated in the line below?

The waves are racing.

Booming. Crashing.

a)

Personification

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Rhyme Scheme

d)

Repetition

16.

What poetry element is illustrated in the line below?

I do not like green eggs and ham. A

I do not like them Sam I am. A

I do not like them in a boat. B

I do not like them with a goat. B

- Dr. Seuss

a)

Personification

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Rhyme Scheme

d)

Repetition

17.

What poetry element is illustrated in the line below?

Tim the terrifying tiger

Tiptoes through tangled trees.

a)

Personification

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Alliteration

d)

Assonance