2010 8th Grade Poetry Test
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Poetry is a way to understand how language and symbol systems work. It is a worthy expression of emotion, or deep feelings, and aesthetics, or a sense of what is beautiful about the words. Poems are important tools to study at any age. Take the 8th poetry test and see how good you are at poetry.
- 1."A gallon of This poem is a good example of:richcountry creamhand whippedinto stiffpeaksflungfrom the beaterinto dollopsacross the blue oilcloth."
- A.
Meter
- B.
Couplet
- C.
Sonnet
- D.
Imagery
- 2."The wind stood up and gave a shout.He whistled on his fingers andKicked the withered leaves about."This poem is an example of :
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Personification
- C.
Imagery
- D.
Simile
- 3."If this be error and upon me proved,I never writ and no man ever loved."Sonnets always end in a certain two-line form, called a :
- A.
Spondee
- B.
Meter
- C.
Quatrain
- D.
Couplet
- 4."...the timer buzzed a bouncing buzz untilit fell off the counter with aclang and lay on the floor with aninjured hiss."These lines are an example of :
- A.
Iambic pentameter
- B.
Onomatopoeia
- C.
Assonance
- D.
Alliteration
- 5."A new electric fence, Its five barbed wires tightAs a steel-stringed banjo."These lines show what poetic device?
- A.
Simile
- B.
Metaphor
- C.
Rhyme scheme
- D.
Personification
- 6."Meter" in a verse of poetry is best defined as:
- A.
The measurement of the length of the whole poem
- B.
A way of keeping track of a poem
- C.
Sounds of words that are similar in a poem
- D.
Stress or unstressed syllables giving rhythm
- 7.The term "verse" in poetry is actually just a:
- A.
Nursery rhyme
- B.
Thought of a poet
- C.
Paragraph of a poem
- D.
A line of traditional poetry written in meter
- 8."Homecoming" by Langston HughesI went back in the alleyAnd I opened up the door.All her clothes was gone:She wasn't home no more.I pulled back the covers,I made down the bed.A whole lot of roomWas the only thing I had.The sections of this poem are called :
- A.
Verses
- B.
Stanzas
- C.
Couplets
- 9.
- A.
Rhyme scheme
- B.
Personification
- C.
Consonance
- D.
Assonance
- E.
All of the above
- 10.An example of "a-b-a-b" rhyme scheme is:
- A.
"When the nightingale to his mate Sings day-long and night late, My love and I keep state In bower, In flower."
- B.
"Not only sands and gravels, Were once more on their travels..."
- C.
"I know that I shall meet my fate, Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love."
- 11."Her goodly eyes like sapphires shining bright,Her forehead ivory white..."These lines of poetry are an example of what poetic device?
- A.
Onomatopoeia
- B.
Metaphor
- C.
Rhythm
- D.
Assonance
- 12."The moon is a white frisbee floating over the mountain," is an example of:
- A.
Simile
- B.
Metaphor
- C.
Repetition
- D.
Pentameter
- 13.An example of alliteration as a poetic device is:
- A.
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
- B.
"...my handmaiden is a worrisome lot.."
- C.
"far to the legions of distant countries..."
- 14.An example of onomatopoeia as a poetic device is:
- A.
"And the fish swim in the lake and do not even own clothing."
- B.
"The bacon began to hiss and sizzle."
- C.
"The barnacles which encrust the side of the wave, cannot hide..."
- 15.The definition of assonance is:
- A.
A fourteen line poem
- B.
Vowel sounds that repeat and rhyme within or at the end of lines of poetry
- C.
Rhyming in every other line of poetry
- 16."Elegy, Written with his own Hand in the Tower before his Execution" by Chidiock Tichborne, 1586My prime of youth is but a frost of cares, My feast of joy is but a dish of pain,My crop of corn is but a field of tares (weeds) And all my good is but vain hope of gain.."This poetic stanza is an example of :
- A.
Metaphor
- B.
Simile
- 17.
- A.
A, B, A
- B.
A, B, C
- C.
A, A, A
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