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English 9: Poetry Test
Multiple Choice: Circle the best answer for each question.
1. “Thy love is like the summer sun” is an example of:
a. An onomatopoeia
b. Simile
c. Metaphor
d. Olfactory imagery
2. “Every fleck of russet showing clear” is an example of:
a. Hyperbole
b. Visual imagery
c. Metaphor
d. Simile
3. A metaphor and a simile are similar in that they:
a. Compare two unlike things.
b. They use the words like or as.
c. They are drastic exaggerations.
d. They have nothing to do with each other.
4. The following is an accurate definition of assonance:
a. Rhyming words.
b. When words start with the same consonant.
c. Internal or external vowel rhyme.
d. A literary device that creates beat in a poem.
5. Onomatopoeia is different from cacophony in the following way:
a. They both rhyme at the end of lines in poems.
b. Neither of them have consonants.
c. They are both funny words.
d. They both rely on harsh sounds to create meaning.
6. Personification is defined as:
a. Giving human characteristics to non human things.
b. Creating pictures with work.
c. A human’s ability to reason.
d. A literary device that rhymes.
7. Which is an example of a metaphor?
a. The orange is pink.
b. The sun is like an orange.
c. The sun is a Florida orange floating in the ocean.
d. My life is orange as the sun.
True/False: Write your choice of true or false in the line beside the statement.
8. A stanza is a paragraph in poetry.
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9. A euphemism is a pleasant way of saying something unpleasant.
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10. The cross worn on a necklace is an example of Catholic symbolism.
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11. An ode, an epic, and an elegy are all written to dead things.
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Matching items: Write the letter of the correct definition in the blank next to the term.
12. Hyperbole
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a) Words that create dissonant sounds.
13. Oxymoron
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b) Words that create pleasant sounds.
14. Cacophony
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c) Giving human qualities to non-human objects.
15. Euphony
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d) A combination of two opposites.
16. Personification
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e) Extreme exaggeration.
Completion Items: Using the stanza below, fill in the blanks for questions 17-20.
She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces through the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look'd down to Camelot.
Out flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror crack'd from side to side;
"The curse is come upon me," cried
The Lady of Shalott.
17. The poet uses the symbol of the mirror to represent ___________________________________.
18. Alfred Lord Tennyson uses the rhyme scheme ______________________ throughout the poem.
19. From this passage, the reader can assume that the Lady of Shalott has been
______________________________________________________.
20. In line 6, there is an example of ____________________ imagery.
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Life or death (depending on the reading of the poem).
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Has been cursed to weave and not look away from the mirror. (cursed is acceptable.)
Visual/ kinesthetic