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Poetry Figuartive Language

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a simile?

a)

Compare two things using like or as

b)

Compares two things without using like or as

c)

Has a beat

d)

Shows that you are happy

2.

What is alliteration?

a)

Compare two things using like or as

b)

Has a beat

c)

Words start with the same sound/ letter and is repeated in a phrase or sentence

d)

Gives human qualities to nonhuman things

3.

What is personification?

a)

Compares two things using like or as

b)

Compares two things without using like or as

c)

Has rhyming words

d)

Gives human qualities to nonhuman things

4.

What is a metaphor?

a)

Gives human qualities to nonhuman things

b)

Compares two things WITHOUT using like or as

c)

Compares two things using like or as

5.

What is imagery?

a)

Use descriptive language to appeal to all senses (hear, see, smell, touch, taste)

b)

ONLY creates a picture in your head

c)

Something that is not real

6.

Which of the following is a simile?

a)

The classroom was a zoo

b)

Sheep should shower in a shed

c)

I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me

d)

Without my glasses, I am blind as a bat

7.

What is an onomatopoeia?

a)

Represents a type of sound

b)

Something you eat

c)

Something that rhymes

d)

Has at least three repeating words in a row

8.

Which of the following is personification?

a)

Busy buzzing, the bee behaved beautifully

b)

As playful as a kitten

c)

Lightning danced across the sky

d)

Katniss is a peacock

9.

Which of the following is a metaphor?

a)

The wind was a howling wolf

b)

Percy is sweet as pie

c)

Harry hears hooligans hum

10.

Which of the following is an onomatopoeia?

a)

Honk, Crash, Boom, Clang

b)

The kitten's fur is milky

c)

The cookie is as hard as a rock

11.

Which of the following is alliteration?

a)

Meow, woof, roar

b)

The kids were monkeys on the jungle gym

c)

Glittering white, the blanket of snow covered everything in sight

d)

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

12.

Which of the following is imagery?

a)

Black bug bit a big black bear

b)

The thunder was a mighty lion

c)

I came inside because the house smells like a chocolate brownie

d)

Splash, crash, pop

13.

What is rhyme?

a)

Compares two things using like or as

b)

Compares two things

c)

Words that in the same sound

14.

Which of the following is rhyme?

a)

Face, place, race

b)

Hat, mat, clap

c)

Cat, bump, rock

d)

Right, Kite, Roar

15.

What is a stanza?

a)

Number of lines in a poem

b)

Only has one line

c)

A group of lines in a poem (paragraph)