WorksheetsPoetry Review
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 24mins
What are the words for how we structure poetry?
Sentences & paragraphs
Sentences & stanzas
Lines & paragraphs
Lines & stanzas
Which word is NOT a word used to talk about poetry?
line
stanza
rhyme scheme
paragraph
Free verse poems do NOT __________.
use repetition.
tell a story.
use words.
rhyme.
Rhythm gives poetry a ____ sound.
Musical
Old-fashioned
Important
Difficult
Words that sound the same
How many rhymes it has
The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables
The length of a poem
What is alliteration?
The use of synonyms.
Words that sound alike.
An exaggeration.
The repetition of a beginning letter sound.
When we compare two things using the words "like" or "as", it is called ______.
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Hyberbole
What poetic device (tool) gives human qualities to non-human things?
Hyperbole
Personification
Alliteration
Idiom
What poetic device (tool) is used here:
Two women were watching two watches.
Personification
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Rhyme
What poetic device (tool) is used here:
"Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered, weak and weary..."
Refrain
Rhyme
Repetition
Simile
What poetic device (tool) is used here: The cloud was fluffy like cotton candy.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Onomatopoeia
What poetic device (tool) is used here: She is a shining star in her class.
Idiom
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
What poetic device (tool) is used here:
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping..."
Personification
Alliteration
Repetition
Refrain
What poetic device (tool) is used here:
The flame of the candle danced in the dark.
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Personification
Repetition
What poetic device (tool) is used here:
"When I was a child I spoke like a child
I understood as a child
I thought as a child"
Metaphor
Alliteration
Repetition
Idioms
"Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said, the butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better. "
This is an example of:
Imagery
Simile
Hyperbole
Alliteration
When two or more words have the same ending sound, it is called ______.
scheme
rhyme
alliteration
repetition
A group of lines arranged together in a poem.
line
stanza
poetry
repetition
Comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as' .
simile
metaphor
Descriptive writing that uses any of our five senses.
repetition
simile
metaphor
imagery
True or False: All poems must rhyme.
True
False
What is the rhyme scheme?
"I saw a star slide down the sky,
Blinding the north as it went by,
Too burning and too quick to hold,
Too lovely to be bought or sold,
Good only to make wishes on
And then forever to be gone."
AAABBB
AABBCC
ABABAB
ABCABC
What are words that imitate sounds?
Ex: Bang! Boom! Meow! Thunk!
onomatopoeia
personification
simile
synonyms
The snow is a white blanket.
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Who is the writer of a poem?
the stanza
the poet
the speaker
the line
Repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of words is called:
EX: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
couplet
alliteration
assonance
rhyme
Simile or metaphor:
My father is a bear in the morning.
simile
metaphor
Put together the rhyming words.
Cup
Up
Door
More
Sky
Fly
Wish
Dish
Fun
Sun
Put the lines in order in an AABB rhyme scheme.
-song lyrics by Coldplay
One minute, I held the key
Next, the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand.
Choose the next line to make the lyrics an ABAB rhyme scheme?
-song lyrics by the Backstreet Boys
"I guess you were lost when I met you,
Still there were tears in your eyes.
So out of trust and I knew
___________________ . "
You wouldn't walk out the door.
One plus one makes two.
No more than mysteries and lies.
Match each line to it's rhyme scheme letter.
(song lyrics - White Houses by Vanessa Carlton
"Maybe I'm a little bit over my head.
I come undone at the things he said.
And he's so funny in his bright red shirt.
We were all in love and we all got hurt"
A
Maybe I'm a little bit over my head.
A
I come undone at the things he said.
B
And he's so funny in his bright red shirt.
B
We were all in love and we all got hurt.
