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Poetry Review

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the words for how we structure poetry?

a)

Sentences & paragraphs

b)

Sentences & stanzas

c)

Lines & paragraphs

d)

Lines & stanzas

2.

Which word is NOT a word used to talk about poetry?

a)

line

b)

stanza

c)

rhyme scheme

d)

paragraph

3.

Free verse poems do NOT __________.

a)

use repetition.

b)

tell a story.

c)

use words.

d)

rhyme.

4.

Rhythm gives poetry a ____ sound.

a)

Musical

b)

Old-fashioned

c)

Important

d)

Difficult

5.
In poetry, what is "meter" ?
a)

Words that sound the same

b)

How many rhymes it has

c)

The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables

d)

The length of a poem

6.

What is alliteration?

a)

The use of synonyms.

b)

Words that sound alike.

c)

An exaggeration.

d)

The repetition of a beginning letter sound.

7.

When we compare two things using the words "like" or "as", it is called ______.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Alliteration

d)

Hyberbole

8.

What poetic device (tool) gives human qualities to non-human things?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Personification

c)

Alliteration

d)

Idiom

9.

What poetic device (tool) is used here:

Two women were watching two watches.

a)

Personification

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Alliteration

d)

Rhyme

10.

What poetic device (tool) is used here:

"Once upon a midnight dreary,

while I pondered, weak and weary..."

a)

Refrain

b)

Rhyme

c)

Repetition

d)

Simile

11.

What poetic device (tool) is used here:  The cloud was fluffy like cotton candy.

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

12.

What poetic device (tool) is used here: She is a shining star in her class.

a)

Idiom

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Simile

13.

What poetic device (tool) is used here: 

"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping..."

a)

Personification 

b)

Alliteration 

c)

Repetition

d)

Refrain 

14.

What poetic device (tool) is used here: 

The flame of the candle danced in the dark.

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification 

d)

Repetition 

15.

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"

a)

Metaphor

b)

Alliteration 

c)

Repetition 

d)

Idioms 

16.

"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:

a)

Imagery

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Alliteration

17.

When two or more words have the same ending sound, it is called ______.

a)

scheme

b)

rhyme

c)

alliteration

d)

repetition

18.

A group of lines arranged together in a poem.

a)

line

b)

stanza

c)

poetry

d)

repetition

19.

Comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as' .

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

20.

Descriptive writing that uses any of our five senses.

a)

repetition

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

imagery

21.

True or False: All poems must rhyme.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

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."

a)

AAABBB

b)

AABBCC

c)

ABABAB

d)

ABCABC

23.

What are words that imitate sounds?

Ex: Bang! Boom! Meow! Thunk!

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

personification

c)

simile

d)

synonyms

24.

The snow is a white blanket. 

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Alliteration

c)

Metaphor

d)

Simile

25.

Who is the writer of a poem?

a)

the stanza

b)

the poet

c)

the speaker

d)

the line

26.

Repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of words is called:

EX: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

a)

couplet

b)

alliteration

c)

assonance

d)

rhyme

27.

Simile or metaphor:

My father is a bear in the morning.

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

28.
Question Image

Put together the rhyming words.

a)

Cup

1.

Up

b)

Door

2.

More

c)

Sky

3.

Fly

d)

Wish

4.

Dish

e)

Fun

5.

Sun

29.

Put the lines in order in an AABB rhyme scheme.

-song lyrics by Coldplay

a)

One minute, I held the key

b)

Next, the walls were closed on me

And I discovered that my castles stand

c)

Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand.

1)
2)
3)
30.

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

___________________ . "

a)

You wouldn't walk out the door.

b)

One plus one makes two.

c)

No more than mysteries and lies.

31.
Question Image

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)

A

1.

Maybe I'm a little bit over my head.

b)

A

2.

I come undone at the things he said.

c)

B

3.

And he's so funny in his bright red shirt.

d)

B

4.

We were all in love and we all got hurt.