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