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Test Description: Students will answer multiple choice questions regarding poetry terms. Designed for 8th Grade level.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is the name of the figurative language technique that gives an object, an idea, an animal, or any other non-human entity human characteristics?
A
Metaphor
B
Simile
C
Personification
D
Anaphora
2) A group of lines in a poem is called a . . .
A
Meter
B
Simile
C
Stanza
D
Extended Metaphor
3) Words in the English language are made up of these individually spoken sounds.
A
Syllables
B
Accents
C
Poems
D
Sentences
4) What sound device uses the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a line of poetry?
A
Personification
B
Assonance
C
Alliteration
D
Metaphor
5) What sound device uses the repetition of vowel sounds in a single line of poetry?
A
Assonance
B
Onomatopoeia
C
Narrative Poetry
D
Lyric Poetry
6) When a particular comparison is brought up again and again throughout an entire work, it is called . . .
A
Extended metaphor
B
Alliteration
C
Oxymoron
D
Hyperbole
7) A lengthy poem with characters, plot, conflict, resolution, and all of the other elements of a story is called a . . .
A
Pun
B
Simile
C
Lyric Poem
D
Narrative Poem
8) What sound device is used to created words for the sounds and noises that the poet wants the audience to hear?
A
Alliteration
B
Onomatopoeia
C
Oxymoron
D
Pun
9) If a poem has a rhyme scheme of . . . aabccb . . . which lines rhyme with one another?
A
Line 5 and Line 6
B
Line 2 and Line 4
C
Line 4 and Line 5
D
Line 1 and Line 3
10) A short, musical poem that focuses on the thoughts and emotions of a single speaker is called a . . .
A
Narrative poem
B
Sound Device
C
Stanza
D
Lyric poem
11) When a fairly simple object is used to represent a much more complex idea, it is called . . .
A
Symbolism
B
Irony
C
Idiom
D
Hyperbole
12) What is the rhyme scheme of the nursery rhyme, Little Miss Muffet ?
A
abab
B
aabccb
C
aabb
D
abcabc
13) When the poet uses language that appeals to the reader's five physical senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell), it is called . . .
A
Sensory Imagery
B
Allusion
C
Hyperbole
D
Idiom
14) This type of figurative language simply implies that two seemingly unlike things are alike.
A
SImile
B
Metaphor
C
Hyperbole
D
Personification
15) What do we call the unique voice that delivers the message of a poem?
A
Teacher
B
Author
C
Student
D
Speaker
16) If a poet decides to use a major exaggeration in a poem, we might call it . . .
A
Hyperbole
B
Symbolism
C
Assonance
D
Idiom
17) In Robert Frost's poem Nothing Gold Can Stay, what does the color gold symbolize?
A
Hard times and difficulty
B
Nothing
C
Newness and beauty
D
Wealth and prosperity
18) The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is called what?
A
Rhythm or Meter
B
Alliteration
C
Consonance
D
Rhyme
19) What do we call the repetition of entire words or phrases in a poem?
A
Rhyme
B
Alliteration
C
Rhythm or Meter
D
Anaphora
20) I'm burning the midnight oil. This phrase is an example of what?
A
Allusion
B
Simile
C
Idiom
D
Poetry
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