WorksheetsELA_Unit 1_Lesson 1_Poetry Terms
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 9mins
What does 'personification' mean as a literary technique?
What does 'alliteration' mean as a literary technique?
Words in a sentence begin with similar sounds.
Words in a sentence end with similar sounds.
Words in a sentence have the same lettering.
Words in a sentence have similar meanings.
What is the difference between onomatopoeia and alliteration?
Alliteration cannot create rhythm.
Onomatopoeia is a specific type of word, whereas alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds.
Alliteration does not utilise sound.
All of the answers.
Choose the onomatopoeia that best completes the sentence.
My ice-cream went _______ on the sidewalk.
Crunch
Fall
Splat
Drop
The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the cans on the shelves.
Metaphor
Simile
Neither
The giant's steps were thunder as he ran toward Jack.
Metaphor
Simile
Neither
"The sun smiled down on us."
This is an example of _________.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoiea
A particular type of literature, painting, music, film or other art form which has special characteristics. This is known as ________.
Genre
Stanza
Theme
Tone
"If you see my dad in Heaven
He won't be hard to find.
He'll be the one to greet you first,
For he's a one-of-a-kind.”
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
ABAB
ABCB
ACBC
ABBA
A group of lines separated by a line break in a poem are known as a __________.
Group
Paragraph
Bunch
Stanza
A ______ is the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a literary work.
Tone
Theme
Stanza
Voice
The attitude or emotion conveyed by an author in their writing is known as the _______.
Theme
Voice
Tone
Symbol
An authors way of expressing themselves, their POV and their personality reflected in the narrative make up the author's ______.
Voice
Theme
Tone
Genre
