POETIC DEVICES QUIZ

📘 SSLC Poetry Appreciation – MCQ Quiz

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1) The Ant and the Cricket

A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring, Began to complain when he found that, at home, His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

sing / summer, home / winter

sing / spring, home / come

cricket / complain, empty / winter

warm / months, found / that

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

aabb

abab

abba

aaaa

iii) Identify the figure of speech (first line):

Personification

Metaphor

Simile

Alliteration

iv) Pick out the alliterating words (Line 2):

warm months

gay spring

months of

sunny, summer, spring

2) The Secret of Machines

We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive, We can print and plough and weave and heat and light, We can run and race and swim and fly and dive, We can see and hear and count and read and write!

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

pull / haul, print / plough

drive / dive, light / write

run / race, see / hear

heat / light, count / read

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

aabb

abab

abba

aaaa

iii) Identify the figure of speech (first line):

Personification/ Imagery

Repetition

Metaphor

Simile

iv) Pick out the alliterating words (Line 2):

weave, heat

heat, light

print, plough

and, weave

3) The House on Elm Street

Beside the house sits a tree It never grows leaves Not in the winter, spring, summer or fall. It just sits there, never getting small or ever growing tall, How could this be?

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

house / tree, leaves / fall

tree / be, fall / tall

winter / summer, sits / sits

grows / leaves, never / ever

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

aabb

abab

abbcb

abcca

iii) Identify the figure of speech (first line)

Personification

Metaphor

Simile

Epithet

iv) Pick out the alliterating words (Line 3):

winter, fall

spring, summer

not in

or fall

4) Life (Set A)

In the dim past nor holding back in fear From what the future veils; but with a whole And happy heart, that pays its toll To youth and age, and travels on with cheer.

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

past / fear, age / cheer

fear / cheer, whole / toll

future / veils, heart / toll

youth / age, past / future

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

aabb

abab

abba

aaaa

iii) Identify the figure of speech (First line) : the

Personification

Metaphor

Simile

Alliteration

iv) Pick out the alliterating words (Line 3):

happy, heart

pays, toll

travels, on

youth, age

5) Life (Set B)

So let the way wind up the hill or down, O'er rough or smooth, the journey will be joy; Still seeking what I sought when but a boy, New friendship, high adventure, and a crown,

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

down / crown, joy / boy

hill / down, rough / smooth

journey / joy, new / high

sought / but, when / a

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

aabb

abab

abba

aaaa

iii) Identify the figure of speech in Line 2:

contrast

Metaphor

Personification

Simile

iv) Pick out the alliterating words (Line 1):

hill, down

way, wind

rough, smooth

new, friendship

6) The Grumble Family (Set A)

There's a family nobody likes to meet; They live, it is said, on Complaining Street In the city of Never-Are-Satisfied, The River of Discontent beside.

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

family / nobody, city / river

meet / street, satisfied / beside

live / said, never / are

complaining / discontent

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

aabb

abab

abba

aaaa

iii) Identify the figure of speech (second line):

Metaphor

Personification

Epithet

Simile

iv) Pick out the alliterating words (Line 2):

said, street

they live

city of

river of

7) The Grumble Family (Set B)

The weather is always too hot or cold; Summer and winter alike they scold. Nothing goes right with the folks you meet Down on that gloomy Complaining street.

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

cold / scold, meet / street

summer / winter, right / folks

gloomy / complaining

always / nothing

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

aabb

abab

abba

aaaa

iii) Identify the figure of speech (Line 4):

Personification

Metaphor

Epithet

Simile

iv) Pick out the alliterating word (Line 2):

alike

winter

summer

scold

8) I Am Every Woman

She's a lioness; don't mess with her. She'll not spare you if you're a prankster. Don't ever try to saw her pride, her self-respect. She know how to thaw you, saw you - so beware!

i) Pick out the rhyming words:

her / prankster

spare / you

pride / self

thaw / saw

ii) Write the rhyme scheme:

aabb

aabc

abab

abba

iii) Identify the figure of speech:

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

Alliteration

iv) Pick out the alliterating words (Line 3):

saw, self-respect

thaw, you

mess, with

know, how