WorksheetsPoetry Review
Total questions: 89
Worksheet time: 1hrs 19mins
Expresses the emotions of the poem's speaker, or narrator.
Lyric Poem
Narrative Poem
Concrete Poem
Free Verse
Can include many of the same literary elements as fiction, such as characters and plot.
Lyric Poem
Narrative Poem
Concrete Poem
Free Verse
a poem that is shaped like the thing it describes.
Lyric Poem
Narrative Poem
Concrete Poem
Free Verse
Does not use consistent rhymes or rhythms. Can take any shape and address any subject.
Lyric Poem
Narrative Poem
Concrete Poem
Free Verse
A thing that stands for itself and something else.
Poetry
Sonnet
Haiku
Symbol
Is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader’s imagination or emotions.
Poetry
Sonnet
Haiku
Symbol
a fourteen-line poem that usually explores the theme of romantic love.
Poetry
Sonnet
Haiku
Symbol
short three-line poems that describe a single image or scene from nature.
Poetry
Sonnet
Haiku
Symbol
An over exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Tone
Mood
Image
The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.
Hyperbole
Tone
Mood
Image
the emotional response that a writer wants to give the reader.
Hyperbole
Tone
Mood
Image
It is the vivid mental picture created in the reader's mind
Hyperbole
Tone
Mood
Image/ imagery
is a figure of speech that compares two different or non-similar things by saying or implying that one thing is the other.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
is a comparison using "like" or "as.”
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
gives inanimate objects humanlike qualities.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
The use of the same word or phrase multiple times in a poem.
Repetition
Stanza
Line
Meter
A group of lines within a poem.
Repetition
Stanza
Line
Meter
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in a poem.
Repetition
Stanza
Line
Meter
The repetition of sounds at the end of words.
Rhyme
Rhythm
Slant Rhyme
Words that have similar, but not identical sounds, such as stop and step.
Rhyme
Rhythm
Slant Rhyme
The pattern of beats, or stressed syllables, in a line of poetry.
Rhyme
Rhythm
Slant Rhyme
Stanzas are made up of lines.
True
False
Poems don’t have many different layers of meaning which makes it easy to identify the main idea and purpose.
True
False
Images in a literary work are referred to as symbol
True
False
Quatrain is a stanza that is made up of four lines.
True
False
Haiku originated from Japan.
True
False
Characters, plot, and setting are not common elements of a narrative poem.
True
False
“Bright blue bottle” is an example of alliteration.
True
False
What are the words in blue an example of?
What are the words in blue an example of?
What are the words in blue an example of?
What are the words in blue an example of?
The assignment was a breeze.
The band played as loud as a sonic boom.
She is as thin as a toothpick.
The flute sang out beautifully during the concert.
metaphor
personification
simile
The snow danced around in the wind.
metaphor
personification
simile
I was so hungry I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
Not Hyperbole
What is this an example of?
Personification
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
What is this an example of?
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Simile
Personification
What is this an example of?
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Time flies when you are having fun!
Hyperbole
Personification
It's was so cold outside today, Polar bears needed jackets.
Hyperbole
Personification
Her smile was a mile wide.
Hyperbole
Personification
"Money is the only friend I can count on"
metaphor
simile
personification
hyperbole
"As fall turned to winter, the trees found themselves wearing white."
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
"This city never sleeps."
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
I can smell pizza from a mile away.
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
"trying to convince my shadow that I'm someone worth following"
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
"I wonder what my bed sheets say about me when I'm not around"
simile
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
The mouse danced through the forest.
What type of figurative language is this sentence?
personification
idiom
metaphor
simile
"The quiz tomorrow will be a piece of cake if you study."
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Idiom
"The wind howled through the trees"
Personification
Oxymoron
Allusion
Juxtaposition
Bang, pop, gurgle, slap
Idiom
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Happy Harry handles handsprings horribly.
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Simile
Alliteration
When the pitcher finished nine innings, he was hungry enough to eat a horse.
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Simile
Metaphor
Rachel is a walking encyclopedia.
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Idiom
Make sure you tell you're friends in the play to break a leg tonight!
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Idiom
The boy was standing like a statue on the sidewalk in everyone's way.
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Hyperbole
"As I stood in the field, the grass whispering its shy music.”
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Allusion
Which of these is a hyperbole?
They lived in a small cabin in the woods.
The boy was taller than the Eiffel tower.
Jackson was eating a bite-sized candy bar.
The moon is overwhelmingly beautiful tonight.
What does the hyperbole, "I have a million things to do today" mean?
There are a million things to do today.
There is nothing to do today.
There is a lot to do tomorrow.
There is a lot to do today.
I am on cloud nine!
Simile
Idiom
Metaphor
Alliteration
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room."
What is being personified?
The walls
The scream
The room
The orange
Rhyming words sound the same ...
at the beginning of the word
at the beginning of the sentence
at the end of the word
because they mean the same
Instead of a paragraph, a chunk of lines in poetry are called a...
paragraph
stanza
couplet
rhyme
What is the rhyme scheme?
A B A B C D A D
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
A B B A C D D C
No rhyme
Complete the rhyme scheme
A
B
B
A
A
A
B
B
Complete the rhyme scheme
A
A
A
B
B
B
B
A
The lady who has loved you as you've grown
Will always love and cherish you for all time.
She has the greatest heart ever known.
AAB
ABC
ABA
ABB
What is the rhyme scheme?
ABCDB
ABCDA
ABCCB
ABCDD
What is the rhyme scheme?
ABAB
AABB
ABCB
AABA
What is the rhyme scheme?
ABBBCCC
ABCDAAA
ABBBAAA
ABCCDDD
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
