Grade 5 worksheet challenging students to identify rhyme schemes of short stanzas and match poem snippets to their dominant device. Distinguishing simile, metaphor, and personification is the central focus, with practice on hyperbole and idioms. Nine fill-in-the-blank items plus a four-pair matching activity sharpen Grade 5 readers' ability to spot figurative language at a glance and explain how each device shapes poetic meaning.
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Poetry Analysis
Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1. Lines ending in moon, June, star, far follow the AABB rhyme scheme.
2. Lines ending in night, day, light, gray follow the ABAB scheme.
3. 'Her smile was like sunshine' is an example of a simile.
4. 'Her smile was sunshine' is an example of a metaphor.
5. 'The wind whispered secrets' gives human traits to wind, so it is personification.
6. Saying 'I have told you a million times' is an exaggeration called hyperbole.
7. An expression like 'break a leg' that means something different from its words is an idiom.
8. Empty space between stanzas is called white space, and it shapes a poem visually.
9. A group of lines arranged together in a poem is called a stanza.
Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1. Match each item to its correct answer.
The clock danced across the wall
→ Personification
Personification
Her hair was silk in the breeze
→ Metaphor
Metaphor
Cold as ice, his stare froze me
→ Simile
Simile
I have a thousand things to do
→ Hyperbole
Hyperbole
Poetry Analysis
★ Part A: Fill in the Blank
Write the missing word or number on each line.
1) Lines ending in moon, June, star, far follow the AABB rhyme scheme.
2) Lines ending in night, day, light, gray follow the ABAB scheme.
3) 'Her smile was like sunshine' is an example of a simile.
4) 'Her smile was sunshine' is an example of a metaphor.
5) 'The wind whispered secrets' gives human traits to wind, so it is personification.
6) Saying 'I have told you a million times' is an exaggeration called hyperbole.
7) An expression like 'break a leg' that means something different from its words is an idiom.
8) Empty space between stanzas is called white space, and it shapes a poem visually.
9) A group of lines arranged together in a poem is called a stanza.
★ Part B: Matching
Match each item on the left to the correct answer on the right.
1) Match each item to its correct answer.
The clock danced across the wall
→ Personification
Personification
Her hair was silk in the breeze
→ Metaphor
Metaphor
Cold as ice, his stare froze me
→ Simile
Simile
I have a thousand things to do
→ Hyperbole
Hyperbole
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