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7th: Poetry Review

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
1. Traditionally these types of poems are often about nature or the changing season and follow a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.
a)
free verse
b)
haiku
c)
ballad
d)
limerick
2.
2.
a)
ballad
b)
free verse
c)
haiku
d)
limerick
3.
3.
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
4.
4. What type of poetry has no real rhythm, rhyme, or pattern. Authors are free to put words together in all sorts of different ways.
a)
free verse
b)
haiku
c)
ballad
d)
limerick
5.
5.
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
6.
6.
a)
16
b)
2
c)
5
d)
11
7.
7.
a)
ababab
b)
aabccb
c)
abcabc
8.
8.
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
9.
9. What is a song-like poem that tells a story with rhyming words?
a)
free verse
b)
haiku
c)
ballad
d)
limerick
10.
10. This poem is an example of a ________.
a)
free verse
b)
limerick
c)
haiku
d)
ballad
11.
11. What type of figurative language is being used when a comparison of unlike things occur with the use of 'like" or "as"?
a)
simile
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
alliteration
d)
metaphor
e)
personfication
12.
12. When we use or see words that represent sounds, what type of figurative language are we using?
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
alliteration
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
e)
personification
13.
13. This type of figurative language is when we see the repetition of the same consonant or consonant sound at the beginning of different words in a sentence or in a line of a poem.
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
e)
personification
14.
14. When we are comparing one thing to another by saying that one thing is something else without using "like" or "as" is know as what type of figurative language?
a)
metaphor
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
alliteration
d)
simile
e)
personification
15.
15. When using this type of figurative language we are giving something that is not human the characteristics of a human.
a)
personification
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
alliteration
d)
simile
e)
metaphor
16.
16. This type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration. This is used to emphasize something, such as a feeling, effort, or reaction. (Example: I had a ton of homework!)
a)
hyperbole
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
alliteration
d)
simile
e)
metaphor
17.
17. What type of figurative language is shown below?
a)
F
b)
A
c)
B
d)
C
e)
D
18.
18. What type of figurative language is shown below?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
C
d)
D
e)
E
19.
19. What type of figurative language is shown below?
a)
C
b)
A
c)
B
d)
D
e)
E
20.
20.What type of figurative language is shown below?
a)
D
b)
A
c)
B
d)
C
e)
E
21.
21. What type of figurative language is shown below?
a)
B
b)
A
c)
C
d)
D
e)
E
22.
22. What type of figurative language is shown below?
a)
E
b)
A
c)
B
d)
C
e)
D
23.
23. This means sounds agree; usually words at the end of a line.
a)
rhyme
b)
refrain
c)
rhythm/meter
d)
repetition
24.
24. What is it called when you see lines repeated regularly within a poem. (Hint: Like the chorus of our favorite song!)
a)
rhyme
b)
refrain
c)
rhythm/meter
d)
repetition
25.
25. This is what is occurring when a word or phrase is used more than once.
a)
rhyme
b)

metaphor

c)
rhythm/meter
d)
repetition
26.
26. This is the regular repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables. This is what we have when we speak since we stress syllables in different ways and our voice changes.
a)
rhyme
b)
refrain
c)
rhythm/meter
d)
repetition
27.
27. What is the repetition of vowel sounds.
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
consonance
d)
assonance
28.
28. Consonant sounds that are repeated anywhere in a word.
a)
alliteration
b)
onomatopoeia
c)
consonance
d)
assonance
29.

Which type of figurative language involves the direct comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'?

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

30.

What poetic device is used when the initial sounds of words are repeated in close succession?

a)

Assonance

b)

Consonance

c)

Alliteration

d)

Onomatopoeia

31.

In poetry, what term describes the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?

a)

Meter

b)

Rhyme

c)

Free verse

d)

Refrain

32.

Which poetic device involves the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

33.

What is the term for a poem's underlying structure, the rules that govern its meter, rhyme, and stanzaic pattern?

a)

Free verse

b)

Form

c)

Limerick

d)

Haiku

34.

What type of figurative language is being used when an inanimate object is given human characteristics?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Personification

35.

What literary device is used to give human characteristics to non-human objects or abstract ideas?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Hyperbole

36.

Which form of poetry is structured, has a specific rhyme scheme, and tells a story, often set to music?

a)

Free verse

b)

Haiku

c)

Ballad

d)

Limerick

37.

What is the term for the repetition of consonant sounds, particularly at the end of words?

a)

Assonance

b)

Consonance

c)

Alliteration

d)

Onomatopoeia