Poetry: Academic Vocabulary

Open Ended

Type any academic vocabulary that you can remember for poetry.

​Structure

Multiple Choice

two line stanza in a poem 

• quatrain
• rhyme scheme
• couplet
• meter

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A pattern of end rhymes in a poem.

• End Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

• Rhyme Scheme

• Rhyme

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Speaker, stanza, couplet, and quatrain are all...

• Poetic Structures
• Figurative Language
• Sound Devices
• Types of poems

Multiple Choice

Which poetic structure is similar to a paragraph in prose?

• Speaker
• Couplet
• Stanza
• Refrain

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Before I leave, almost without noticing,

before I cross the road and head toward

what I have intentionally postponed—

Let me stop to say a blessing for these woods:

for crows barking and squirrels scampering,

for trees and fungus and multi-colored leaves,

for the way sunlight laces with shadows

through each branch and leaf of tree,

for these paths that take me in,

for these paths that lead me out.

• free verse

• lyric poem

• narrative poem

Multiple Choice

Which type of poetry tells a story?

• Lyric
• Narrative
• Haiku
• Free Verse

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A poem consisting of a single speaker expressing a state of mind or process or perception, feeling, emotion, or thought

• Lyric
• Sonnet
• Narrative
• Free Verse

Multiple Choice

In the sentence, "When the cat stalks his prey, he is a shadow," what two things are being compared?

• The cat and its prey

• The cat and its shadow

• The cat and a shadow

• The prey and its shadow

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a metaphor?

• His hair is flame red

• Like a flame, his hair is red

• In the sunlight, his hair is flame

• His hair is red as a flame

Multiple Choice

The Blue Jay is jumping on the tree singing and dancing happily.
What is the blue jay's tone while singing?

• Joyful
• Dreamy
• Confused
• sweet

Multiple Choice

What is the "tone" of a story?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader
• The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject
• The time and place of the story
• The summary of events in the story

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences contains a simile?

• She was a gazelle

• She ran faster than a gazelle

• A gazelle couldn't run faster than she did

• She was as graceful as a gazelle

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Diction is the literary term that means

• The connections we have with words

• An author's choice of words

• The definition of words

• The common way of speaking with friends

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the allusion?

My brother is a regular Einstein! He always seems to know the answer!

• His brother is unintelligent

• His brother works hard

• His brother is intelligent

• His brother is lazy

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is an example of a polysyndeton?

• I ate chicken, rice, beans, potatoes.
• I ate chicken and rice and beans and potatoes.
• I ate like a pig.
• I ate 4 things for dinner.

Multiple Choice

What would be an example of anaphora

• She told him yesterday

  I'll tell him today

  he will be reminded of this.

  He should not forget.

• I told him yesterday

  I told him today

  I told him many times

  I'll remind him tomorrow