Poetry Unit Review

True or False: The third and fourth lines of a limerick are longer than the other lines.

What sound device does this best illustrate? "Whish went the ball"

Internal rhyme or end rhyme? "He's king of the swing."

Alliteration or Consonance? "When it ended, he landed"

True or False: When you add up the syllables in a haiku, you get 18.

Assonance or Consonance? "There is a slim jim in the gym bag"

What type of literary device is illustrated here: "Belle loved the beautiful ballet."

What type of figurative language is illustrated here: "The bed springs complained when he lay down"

Alliteration or Consonance? "Jim is a jester."

True or False: The third and fourth lines of a limerick rhyme with one another but not with the other lines.

"Thwack" is an example of what literary device?

True or False: The only person visible in the photo "Photograph 1969" is the poet's mother.

What did the women in the poem "Women" want for their children?

True or False: Casey is scared when he gets up to bat.

What sound device does this best illustrate? "The attack on Brock"

True or False: "A Popular Personage at Home" is written in third person.

True or False: The diction in the poem "I Hear America Singing" was very positive

Which poem is NOT about an animal?

Is this poem a narrative or lyric poem? "Twister Hits Houston"

True or False: A limerick is a five-line poem that is often humorous.

True or False: A circle poem is written in the shape of a circle.

What flower is "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" written about?

Which of these poems is a sad poem?

What sound device does this best illustrate? "I sighed and cried at night."

True or False: "The food smelled wonderful" contains imagery.

Exact or slant rhyme? "said/led"

True or False: A Haiku does not rhyme

What type of figurative language is illustrated here "She was a storm in its fury"

True or False: "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" is written about a worm.

Is this poem a narrative or lyric poem? "Casey at the Bat"

True or False: Saying your project took 100 years to finish is an example of hyperbole.

True or false: A limerick is written in an anapestic meter (two weak and one strong stress)?

Which poems or poem is NOT about nature?

What type of figurative language is illustrated here: "The dream lifted like a cloud?"

True or False: Lyric poetry tells the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker.

Exact or slant rhyme? "Drive/Strive"

Is this poem a narrative or lyric poem? "Fifteen"

What type of poetry tells a story?

Exact or slant rhyme? "Bridge/Badge"

Assonance or Consonance? "He weeded each Easter."