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• Problems practice poetry elements such as figurative language, mood, speaker, rhyme
pattern, and making inferences.

Set up:
• Print, cut, and fill plastic Easter eggs with these poetry review problems
• Hide the eggs inside or out – kids love both ways!
• Print or display the student directions
• Copy student answer sheets

How I use this resource:

• Print and laminate the cards in color
• Buy cheap eggs from the Dollar Store (You could also just hide the laminated slips of
paper.)
• Students work in pairs to find and solve the egg review problems, being mindful to leave
the egg as they found it.
• The answer sheet I copy 2 to a page, then copy it back to back with the student
directions. When students return from lunch I have the sheet direction side up waiting on
their desk. (Over lunch I hide the eggs.)
• At the end of the lesson I give them all a piece of candy.
• This would also work great as a reading center, students could solve the problems from
an egg basket. It helps to number the outside of the egg if you use them as a center,
this way students can easily see which eggs they still need to open.
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Printable Student Directions
Directions:
Dear Students,
You are about to embark on
an egg hunt! Your goal is to find
as many eggs as you can. Once
you find an egg solve the problem
hidden inside, and record your
answer on your answer sheet. Be
sure to put the card back in the
egg for others to find.
Good luck! I know you’ll do an
egg-cellent job!
Sincerely,
Your egg-static teacher!
Directions:
Dear Students,
You are about to embark on
an egg hunt! Your goal is to find
as many eggs as you can. Once
you find an egg solve the problem
hidden inside, and record your
answer on your answer sheet. Be
sure to put the card back in the
egg for others to find.
Good luck! I know you’ll do an
egg-cellent job!
Sincerely,
Your egg-static teacher!
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 STUDENT DIRECTIONS:
You are about to embark on an egg hunt! Your
goal is to find as many eggs as you can. Once
you find an egg solve the problem hidden inside,
and record your answer on your answer sheet.
Be sure to put the problem back in the egg for
others to find.

Good luck, and show

your work! I know you’ll
do an egg-cellent job!

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1. What poetry element is being used?
a. Personification b. Simile
c. Metaphor d. Alliteration
The tree danced back and
forth in the wind.
3. What poetry element is being used?
a. Personification b. Simile
c. Metaphor d. Rhyme
I'll tell you the story of Cloony the Clown
Who worked in a circus that came through town.
5. What rhyming pattern is this stanza?
The alligator chased his tail
Which hit him in the snout;
He nibbled, gobbled, swallowed it,
And turned right inside-out.
by Mary Macdonald
2. What poetry element is being used in the poem
Sick by Shel Silverstein?
a. Personification b. Simile
c. Metaphor d. Onomatopoeia
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
4. What poetry element is being used?
a. Personification b. Simile
c. Metaphor d. Alliteration
The silly sisters sang and shopped
senselessly until sundown.
6. What rhyming pattern is this stanza?
I love noodles. Give me oodles.
Make a mound up to the sun.
Noodles are my favorite foodles.
I eat noodles by the ton.
By Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr.
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7. Which sound device is being used?
a. Rhyme b. Repetition
c. Alliteration d. Onomatopoeia
The water roared and crashed
Splished and splashed
9. Which sound device is being used?
a. Rhyme b. Repetition
c. Alliteration d. Onomatopoeia
The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
~ by Robert Louis Stevenson
11. What rhyming pattern is this stanza?
Snow makes whiteness where it falls.
The bushes look like popcorn balls.
And places where I always play,
Look like somewhere else today.
By Marie Louise Allen
8. Which sound device is being used?
a. Rhyme b. Repetition
c. Alliteration d. Onomatopoeia
And she said, but mooom –
I want it! I want it! I want it!
10. Which sound device is being used?
a. Rhyme b. Repetition
c. Alliteration d. Onomatopoeia
The snake slithered silently
along the sunny sidewalk.
12. What rhyming pattern is this stanza?
No, I cried as my dog jumped in!
Now he’s going to smell and stink,
I hope he fits in our sink.
That smell better stay off my skin!
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13. What is the mood of this selection? 14. What is the mood of this selection?
Homework! Oh, homework! In the morning, very early,
you're last on my list, That’s the time I love to go
I simply can't see if you just disappeared Barefoot where the fern grows curly
why you even exist, it would tickle me pink. And grass is cool between each toe,
Homework! Oh, homework! On a summer morning-O!
I hate you! You stink!

15. What is the mood of this selection? 16. What is the mood of this selection?
Something is there
What could it be?
I shut my door to keep you out there on the stair
Won’t do no good to stand and shout coming down
I lock my door to keep me here coming down
stepping with care.
Until I’m sure you disappear. Coming down
coming down!

17. What is the mood of this selection? 18. What is the mood of this selection?

Higglety, Pigglety, Pop! I kissed a frog because I’d heard

The dog has eaten the mop; That it would turn into a prince.
The pig’s in a hurry, That’s not exactly what occurred,
The cat’s in a flurry, And I’ve been croaking ever since.
Higglety, Pigglety, Pop!

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 19. Simile or Metaphor? Why?
Her eyes were fire, her
words were water.
21. Simile or Metaphor? Why?
Like the kite flies in the
wind my dreams soared
through my mind.
23. Is this an example of alliteration? Why?
Beside the table the dog and
collar lay,
Waiting for that person to go out
and play
20. Simile or Metaphor? Why?
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
22. Why is this an example of personification?
Mister Sun
Wakes up at dawn,
Puts his golden slippers on,
Climbs the summer sky at noon,
Trading places with the moon.
24. Why is this an example of alliteration?
Write a sentence using alliteration.
Chatty cats meow and moan
Until their owners do come home.
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25. What point of view is this poem told from?
a. First Person b. Third Person
Crayon Dance
The cardboard ceiling lifts
Pickmepickmepickme, I pray
The fingers do! They choose me, Sky Blue!
Hurrah! Hooray!
27. What point of view is this poem told from?
a. First Person b. Third Person
Clouds
. We win all our races
White sheep, white sheep, on a blue hill, when the
wind stops they all stand still.
When the wind blows the sheep fade away
White sheet, white sheep
29. Who is the speaker in this poem?
Slurp! Slurp! I hate that noise.
Dark places with teeth I do not enjoy
Every morning is the same
I’m sick of this breakfast game!
26. What point of view is this poem told from?
a. First Person b. Third Person
I talk with the moon, said the owl
While she lingers over my tree
I talk with the moon, said the owl
And the night belongs to me.
28. Who is the speaker in this poem?
My long mane flows as we jump and trot
we can’t be caught!
A carrot for me and medal for her
Then it’s back to the stables
To practice some more
30. Who is the speaker in this poem?
GOAL! I’m spiked again!
The stadium roars as the ref picks up me
My lace spins as the quarterback lets it RIP!
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Answer Sheet Date:______________

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 Answer Key
1. 2. Simile 3. Rhyme 4. Alliteration 5. ABCB
Personification

6. ABAB 7. Onomatopoeia 8. Repetition 9. Rhyme 10. Alliteration

11. AABB 12. ABBA 13. Angry, 14. Happy, 15. Mad, Upset,
hateful Relaxed, Excited Angry

16. Anxious, 17. Funny, silly, 18. Funny, silly, 19. Metaphor, 20. Simile “as”
Scared, Fearful happy happy direct
comparison
21. Simile, “Like” 22. The poet 23. No, there 24. Yes, b/c 25. First person
gave the sun are no repeating chatty and cat
human like sounds or letter and meow and
characteristics patterns moan start with
“c” and “m”
26. First person 27. Third Person 28. A horse 29. A spoon 30. A football

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