WorksheetsPoetry Terms Lesson
Total questions: 76
Worksheet time: 2hrs 39mins
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Class
Date
1.
Hyperboles are phrases that
a)
compare two unlike things
b)
exaggerate
c)
give person-like qualities to animals and things
d)
have a different meaning than the words.
2.
Which of the following is a hyperbole?
a)
She is as pretty as a flower.
b)
She is the prettiest woman in the entire universe.
c)
She is a beautiful flower.
d)
She is very pretty.
3.
It is going to rain tomorrow.
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
none
4.
Identify the Simile below...
a)
The tree danced in the wind.
b)
She is as tall as a tree!
c)
That cat is the devil.
d)
My backpack weighs a thousand tons!
5.
What's the meaning of this metaphor?
"After all the fans left the stadium, the bleachers were a disaster area."
"After all the fans left the stadium, the bleachers were a disaster area."
a)
Trash and leftover food and drinks littered the ground.
b)
Lots of caution tape was used to block off sections.
c)
Reporters were everywhere trying to catch a story.
d)
After the game, a tornado hit.
6.
What is a metaphor?
a)
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
b)
A comparison not using like or as
c)
Words that are sounds
d)
A comparison using like or as
7.
What is imagery?
a)
An exaggeration
b)
A phrase that is not meant to be taken literally
c)
The same beginning sound repeated
d)
Words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
8.
What is a simile?
a)
A comparison using like or as
b)
A comparison not using like or as
c)
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
d)
A word that is a sound
9.
"My head was a burning bush after we finished jogging" is an example of:
a)
metaphor
b)
idiom
c)
simile
d)
personification
10.
Words or phrases in writing that should not be taken literally:
a)
antonyms
b)
sensory details
c)
figurative language
d)
synonyms
11.
When two unlike things are being compared using like or as, it is called a
a)
simile
b)
hyperbole
c)
idiom
d)
metaphor
12.
An obvious and impossible exaggeration is:
a)
hyperbole
b)
simile
c)
idiom
d)
personification
13.
"Her ruby slippers glowed like embers in a fire" is an example of what figurative language?
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
14.
What is repetition?
a)
Repeating the beginning sounds of words
b)
Retelling what the poem was about
c)
Repeating words, lines, or stanzas in a poem for emphasis
d)
A pattern of rhyme in a poem
15.
What is a stanza?
a)
A group of words or a phrase in a poem
b)
A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in poetry
c)
a pattern of rhyme in a poem
d)
repeating words, phrases, or lines for emphasis
16.
What type of figurative language is shown?
Life is one long, adventurous roller coaster.
Life is one long, adventurous roller coaster.
a)
simile
b)
onomatopeia
c)
hyperbole
d)
metaphor
17.
What type of figurative language is shown?
Her smile was as bright as sunshine.
Her smile was as bright as sunshine.
a)
hyperbole
b)
simile
c)
personification
d)
metaphor
18.
What type of figurative language is shown?
She is so smart. She is a walking dictionary.
She is so smart. She is a walking dictionary.
a)
metaphor
b)
oxymoron
c)
onomatopoeia
d)
hyperbole
19.
What type of figurative language is shown?
I have a million chores to do tonight!
I have a million chores to do tonight!
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
metaphor
c)
hyperbole
d)
alliteration
20.
The drive to Disney World will last forever if I have to be stuck in the backseat with my pesky little sister.
a)
personification
b)
hyperbole
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
21.
descriptive language that appeals to our senses
a)
imagery
b)
sonnet
c)
metaphor
22.
A group of lines in a poem (like a paragraph)
a)
Stanza
b)
Haiku
23.
What device is used in this sentence?
Fruit is fuel for healthy body.
Fruit is fuel for healthy body.
a)
Metaphor
b)
Simile
c)
Personification
d)
Alliteration
24.
What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."
a)
Her hair is red.
b)
She talks really loudly.
c)
She gets really angry.
d)
She spits when she talks.
25.
A metaphor is _____________
a)
continuation of a sentence over a line break (no punctuation)
b)
comparison of two things NOT using "like," "as," or "than"
c)
rhyme occurring in the middle of a line
d)
extreme exaggeration
26.
A simile is _________________
a)
a comparison of two things using "like", "as," or "than"
b)
rhyme occurring in the middle of the line
c)
repetition of vowels
d)
extreme exaggeration
27.
This is an example of:
The crickets were chirping, the stars were shining and the air was filled with the smell of a campfire, s'mores and the pop corn was popping.
The crickets were chirping, the stars were shining and the air was filled with the smell of a campfire, s'mores and the pop corn was popping.
a)
Onomontopia
b)
Paradox
c)
Personification
d)
Imagery
28.
"Folks were prickly and fearful. Loyalist shopkeepers had been tarred and feathered by angry mobs and their shops destroyed. Each day dawned hotter than the one before" (106).
What is the mood of the passage?
What is the mood of the passage?
a)
romantic
b)
sorrowful
c)
joyful
d)
suspenseful
29.
What is the mood of a story or poem?
a)
attitude of the speaker, character, or narrator
b)
repetition of sounds
c)
how the protagonist feels
d)
the feeling created in the audience by the words of the writer
30.
A group of lines in a poem.
a)
Stanza
b)
Line
c)
Sentence
d)
Paragraph
31.
I am as hungry as a bear!
a)
hyperbole
b)
alliteration
c)
simile
d)
metaphor
32.
That fat cat weighs a thousand pounds!
a)
hyperbole
b)
simile
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
33.
A comparison between 2 unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
hyperbole
d)
personification
34.
An extreme exaggeration used for effect
a)
metaphor
b)
personification
c)
hyperbole
d)
simile
35.
A comparison between 2 unlike things using 'like' or 'as'
a)
personification
b)
simile
c)
metaphor
d)
hyperbole
36.
What's the meaning of this hyperbole?
"Shawn would move mountains for Angela."
"Shawn would move mountains for Angela."
a)
Shawn and Angela like to climb mountains together.
b)
Shawn paints pictures of mountain scenes.
c)
Shawn would do anything for Angela.
d)
Angela is really pretty.
37.
Repetition is ______
a)
extreme exaggeration
b)
repeating a word
c)
repetition of vowels
d)
repetition of the initial consonant
38.
Does this sentence have a literal or figurative meaning?
The chair was so heavy that I couldn’t lift it.
The chair was so heavy that I couldn’t lift it.
a)
Literal
b)
Figurative
39.
Does this sentence have a literal or figurative meaning?
My whole life is one big circus.
My whole life is one big circus.
a)
Literal
b)
Figurative
40.
Does this sentence have a literal or figurative meaning?
The bridge of my nose is bruised.
The bridge of my nose is bruised.
a)
Literal
b)
Figurative
41.
A feeling the author creates
a)
personification
b)
mood
c)
rhyme
d)
free verse
42.
A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a line of space
a)
stanza
b)
verse
c)
refrain
d)
couplet
43.
Imagery is language that appeals everything EXCEPT
a)
sight
b)
smell
c)
taste
d)
driving ability
44.
A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself
a)
Mood
b)
Tone
c)
Symbol
d)
Imagery
45.
Uses like or as to compare two things
a)
simile
b)
metaphor
c)
alliteration
d)
rhythm
46.
Describes one thing as if it is another
a)
Simile
b)
Denotation
c)
Connotation
d)
Metaphor
47.
Creates vivid word pictures; five senses
a)
Figurative Language
b)
Metaphor
c)
Simile
d)
Imagery
48.
Use of a sound, word or phrase more than once
a)
Rhyme
b)
Repetition
c)
Alliteration
d)
Refrain
49.
Lines of a poem that are organized in units of meaning (like a paragraph)
a)
refrain
b)
stanzas
c)
rhyme scheme
d)
narrative poem
50.
a half rhyme; words that are intended to rhyme but are not an exact rhyme
a)
end rhyme
b)
slant rhyme
c)
internal rhyme
d)
rhyme scheme
51.
words that end in both the same vowel and the same consonant sound (sun and run)
a)
exact rhyme
b)
slant rhyme
c)
masculine rhyme
d)
feminine rhyme
52.
words that end in similar but not exact sounds (prove and love)
a)
exact rhyme
b)
slant rhyme
c)
masculine rhyme
d)
feminine rhyme
53.
a set pattern of rhyme identified by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each rhyme (ABAB CC)
a)
terminal rhyme
b)
eye rhyme
c)
rhyme scheme
d)
exact rhyme
54.
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.
a)
ballad
b)
tone
c)
symbol
d)
theme
55.
The author’s specific word choice.
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
diction
c)
allusion
d)
free verse
56.
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
a)
symbol
b)
theme
c)
metaphor
d)
allusion
57.
An example of this is: “My heart’s a stereo.”
a)
metaphor
b)
simile
c)
personification
d)
allusion
58.
This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.
a)
ballad
b)
enjambment
c)
meter
d)
symbol
59.
An example of this is: “My love is like a red, red rose.”
a)
simile
b)
meter
c)
metaphor
d)
tone
60.
Plath's poem uses enjambment in which lines?
a)
1 and 2
b)
7 and 8
c)
11 and 12
d)
16 and 17
61.
Which two lines from Graves' poem create a slant rhyme?
a)
1 and 2
b)
6 and 7
c)
11 and 12
d)
13 and 14
62.
Graves’ poem follows which rhyme scheme?
a)
AABBB/CCDDD/EEFFF
b)
ABABB/CDCDD/EFEFF
c)
AABCC/DDBEE/FFBGG
d)
AABAA/CCBCC/DDBDD
63.
A type of irony in which the reader is aware of a plot development but the characters of the story are unaware.
a)
Sympathetic Character
b)
Essay
c)
Context
d)
Dramatic Irony
64.
Irony occurring when an author or character's meaning differs from what he or she expresses in words.
a)
Verbal Irony
b)
Motives
c)
Flat Characters
d)
Hyperbole
65.
What is the rhyme scheme from Sonnet 30:
"...thing may be told
...should harden ice
...with senseless cold
...by wonderful device"
"...thing may be told
...should harden ice
...with senseless cold
...by wonderful device"
a)
ABAB
b)
BBCC
c)
AABB
d)
ABCD
66.
A poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and must continue on to the next line to complete its meaning; also referred to as a “run-on line.”
a)
rhythm
b)
rhyme
c)
enjambment
d)
caesura
67.
a poetic technique in which one line ends without a pause and must continue to the next line.
a)
caesura
b)
meter
c)
enjambment
d)
syntax
68.
a writer's choice of words; choosing words with precise denotations and connotations
a)
diction
b)
rhetoric
c)
tone
d)
mood
69.
a description of how something looks, feels, tastes, smells, or sounds.
a)
diction
b)
imagery
c)
figurative language
d)
enjambment
70.
the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences in a passage. This includes word order, length, and structure of sentences
a)
scansion
b)
meter
c)
syntax
d)
speaker
71.
a rhyme that pairs sounds that are similar but not exactly the same
a)
end rhyme
b)
internal rhyme
c)
near or slant rhyme
d)
eye or sight rhyme
72.
Arrangement of words or phrases in a sentence
a)
syntax
b)
diction
c)
assonance
d)
repetition
73.
A group of lines; similar to a PARAGRAPH in prose
a)
structure
b)
syntax
c)
stanza
d)
diction
74.
Exaggeration (ex: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.)
a)
litote
b)
hyperbole
c)
consonance
d)
assonance
75.
The arrangement of words and phrases to create sentences:
a)
Symbolism
b)
Tone
c)
Syntax
d)
Irony
76.
"Nothing Gold Can stay” - by Robert Forster
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaves a flower,
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaves a flower,
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.
a)
The rhyme scheme is ABAB ABAB...
b)
The rhyme scheme is AABBCCDD...
c)
The rhyme scheme is ABCD EFGH...
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