Name: _____________________
Date: _____________________
English 2 – Period: ____________
Study Guide for the Poetry Quiz
Complete out this entire sheet as a study tool for Tuesday’s test. If you complete it entirely
prior to the test, you can earn extra credit for your quiz score.
Identify which literary device is being used in the following phrases:
1. ____________ Carries cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.
2. ____________ My eyes widened at the sight of the mile-high ice cream cones we were
having for dessert.
3. ____________ She had a heart of stone
4. ____________ The wind sang her mournful song through the falling leaves.
5. ____________ Cock-a-doodle-do, crowed the rooster.
6. ____________ The child was as agile as a monkey
Be able to define the following literary terms:
Metaphor:
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Alliteration:
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Assonance:
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Consonance:
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Hyperbole:
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Personification: ___________________________________________
Onomatopoeia: ___________________________________________
Simile:
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Answer the following questions:
How many lines is a Haiku poem?
What are Haiku poems normally about?
How many syllables does each line of a Haiku have?
What does a Narrative Poem do?
What narrative poem did we read?
Who was the author of that poem?
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Who was the author of The Mending Wall and Birches? ________________
What kind of poetry was Shakespeare famous for?
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How many lines does a quatrain have?
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How many lines does a couplet have?
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How many lines does a Shakespearean Sonnet have?
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What is the rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean Sonnet?
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What was the overlying metaphor for Sonnet 18? What two things were being compared?
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Write one original example for each of the following literary devices:
Metaphor:
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Alliteration:
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Hyperbole:
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Personification:
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Onomatopoeia:
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Simile:
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