WorksheetsLit 1 Honors: Unit 3 (Poetry)
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 1hrs 19mins
Which of the following pairs of words rhyme?
Banana and Apple
Cry and Pie
Baby and Lady
Fast and Furious
Which couplet shows an AABB pattern
There was a man,
A tall, tall man
Sam loved to eat
Strawberry jam
Among the rain
and lights
The sun is shining bright
This is a lovely sight.
What is the rhyme scheme for this poem
ABCD
ABAB
ABBA
BABA
Poetry form:
a group of words together on one line of the poem
Line
the appearance of the words on the page
Form
a group of lines arranged together
Stanza
End Rhyme is...
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line
A pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always).
Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
What kind of rhyme is employed in this lines from a poem:
I see the red boat that has a red flag.
Just like my red coat and my little red pail.
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
What kind of rhyme is employed in this lines from a poem:
It is fallible men who make the law.
This maybe a flaw, but there‘s no other way.
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
What kind of rhyme is employed in this lines from a poem:
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravely ground.
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
What kind of rhyme is employed in this lines from a poem:
With sparkling eyes, and cheeks by passion flushed
Strikes with his wild lyre, while listening dames are hushed
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
What kind of rhyme is employed in this lines from a poem:
The moon never beams without bringing me dreams.
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes.
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
What does "The poet had butterflies in her stomach as she recited her poem" mean?
Butterflies grew in her stomach
She was ready for her speech
She read her poem out loud
She was nervous before the speech
What is personification?
Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'.
Giving human traits to objects or ideas.
A dramatic exaggeration.
A word that resembles the sound it represents.
What is alliteration?
Giving human traits to objects or ideas
A phrase that means something other than what it says
Repeating the same initial sound in several words
A contradictory phrase
What is an onomatopoeia?
A word that resembles the sound it makes
Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'
A dramatic exaggeration
Comparing two things by saying one is the other
What is a simile?
A phrase that means something other than what it says
Comparing two things by stating one is the other
Comparing two things by using 'like' or 'as'
A word that resembles the sound it represents
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'
Repeating the same initial sound in neighboring words
A phrase that means something different than what it literally says
Comparing two things by stating one is the other
What is hyperbole?
Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'
An extreme exaggeration
Giving human traits to objects or ideas
Words or phrases that are contradictory
The tree is a gentle giant.
A finer oak you will never see.
It waves to people who walk by and always says "hi" to me.
The 3rd line is an example of _____
personification
simile
metaphor
Life is often a roller coaster;
Unpredictable it can surely be;
It is sometimes as smooth as silk,
But it can be as rough as the sea.
The first line of the poem contains _______.
personification
simile
metaphor
"Nature's first green is gold/
Her hardest hue to hold/
Her early leaf's a flower/
But only so an hour/
Then leaf subsides to leaf/
So Eden sank to grief/
So dawn goes down to day/
Nothing gold can stay/
The final line, "Nothing gold can stay," suggests that the speaker feels a sense of --
What is the term for the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses?
stanza
onomatopoeia
optical illusion
imagery
What are the words or phrases that are repeated throughout the poem?
Rhyme scheme
Rhythm
Repetition
Rhyme
Read the following poem and decide which two poetic devices the author uses.
"At midnight in the museum hall, The fossils gathered for a ball. There were no drums or saxophones, But just the clatter of their bones. A rolling, rattling, carefree circus Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas. Pterodactyls and brontosauruses Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses. Amid the mastodontic wassail, I caught the eye of one small fossil. "Cheer up, sad world," he said, and winked-- "It's kind of fun to be extinct."
personification, onomatopoeia
simile, metaphor
metaphor, alliteration
The attitude the poem’s narrator or writer takes towards a subject or character
A collected group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
What is the difference between mood and tone?
Tone is how you feel while reading; mood is how the writer feels about the subject.
Mood is based on how your day is going; tone is how you speak.
Mood and tone are the same thing.
Mood is how you feel while reading; tone is how the writer feels about the subject.
The "roads" in Robert Frost's poem are most likely symbolism for what?
Life choices we make
People we never meet
Dreams we have in life
Plans we make for ourselves
Why would a poet use repetition?
Because no one reads poems closely enough
Because it looks good on paper
Poets don't use repeitition
To emphasize or draw attention to an image, phrase, or idea
How many stanzas are in this poem?
(a)
When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds, it's called...
alliteration
assonance
consonance
apostrophe
A reference to something of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance is called...
apostrophe
allusion
Idiom
Hyperbole
Identify the rhyme scheme of the following 8-line stanza from "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman:
1: "O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
2: The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
3: The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
4: While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
5: But O heart! heart! heart!
6: O the bleeding drops of red,
7: Where on the deck my Captain lies,
8: Fallen cold and dead."
AABBCCDD
AABBCDCD
AABCDDEE
AABBCDED
"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
