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This document contains a pre-assessment for figurative language with multiple choice and short answer questions. It tests the student's knowledge of literary devices such as allusion, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, metaphor, and imagery. It also contains two poems, "Fog" by Carl Sandburg and an untitled poem by Emily Dickinson, with analysis questions about examples of personification, line count, stanza count, and syllable count.

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Figurative Language Pre

This document contains a pre-assessment for figurative language with multiple choice and short answer questions. It tests the student's knowledge of literary devices such as allusion, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, metaphor, and imagery. It also contains two poems, "Fog" by Carl Sandburg and an untitled poem by Emily Dickinson, with analysis questions about examples of personification, line count, stanza count, and syllable count.

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Figurative Language Pre-Assessment


Name:
Date:

Read each question carefully, then print the letter of the correct answer on the line next to the question.

1. _____ Allusion is
a. A type of literary device where sounds are repeated multiple times in a
row.
b. A reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, literary, cultural,
or political significance.
c. The main idea of a text

2. _____ Choose the correct example of onomatopoeia:


a. Wise fool
b. Stanley Yelnats
c. Buzzing bee

3. _____ An oxymoron is
a. A combination of opposite words.
b. When a character or narrator speaks directly to an inanimate object.
c. A comparison using “like” or “as”.

4. _____ Personification is
a. When an author creates a character.
b. A made-up word.
c. When an author gives human characteristics to a thing that is not human.

5. _____ Choose the correct example of a metaphor:


a. Dance is a poem.
b. Dance is like a poem.

6. _____ Imagery is the literary term used for


a. Language and description that appeals to our five senses.
b. Words that represent a sound.
c. Showing exaggeration.
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Read each poem carefully, then answer the questions to the right of the poems. If you
don’t understand a word look at the vocabulary definitions underneath the poems.
Fog
By Carl Sandburg

The fog comes _______ This poem is an example of
on little cat feet. a. Metaphor
b. Personification
c. Allusion
It sits looking
over harbor and city (Hint: Look at the first two lines of the poem.)
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

*Definitions:
Haunches: The bottom and thigh of an animal or human.


The morns are meeker than they were- (32)
By Emily Dickinson
Circle two examples of personification.
The morns are meeker than they were -
The nuts are getting brown -
The berry’s cheek is plumper -
Write the number of lines in this poem.
The rose is out of town.
_______
The maple wears a gayer scarf -
The field a scarlet gown - Write the number of stanzas in this
Lest I sh'd be old-fashioned poem.
I’ll put a trinket on. _______

How many syllables are in the first line

*Definitions: of the poem?


Meeker: Quieter _______
Gayer: Happier
Gown: A dress
Trinket: An ornament or item of jewelry

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