Understanding Poetry

Understanding Poetry

By Madison Waite

Multiple Choice

What is assonance?

• The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a series of words
• the repetition of the first consonant sounds in a series of words
• the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words
• the repetition of lines or groups of lines in a poem or song

Multiple Choice

Chilly chicken children shivered with goosebumps

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• Do chickens get goosebumps or chickenbumps?

Multiple Choice

repeated vowel sounds
They roam the lonesome roads and never go home.

• alliteration
• consonance
• assonance
• onomatopoeia

Perfect Rhyme

Known as perfect & exact

rhyme ​

Imperfect/Slant Rhyme

• Also known as a partial rhyme

• Their sounds almost rhyme - but not exactly.

Multiple Choice

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…

• alliteration

• internal rhyme

• perfect rhyme

Multiple Choice

Which couplet shows an AABB pattern?

• There was a man,

  A tall, tall man

• Sam loved to eat

  Strawberry jam

• Among the rain

  and lights

• The sun is shining bright

  This is a lovely sight.

Multiple Choice

Rhyme scheme is the pattern of _______ that comes at the end of each line or stanza in poetry

• repeating

• rhyme scheme

• rhyming

• sounds

Multiple Choice

Complete the rhyme scheme

• A

  B

• B

  A

• A

  A

• B

  B

Multiple Choice

Complete the rhyme scheme

• A

  A

• A

  B

• B

  B

• B

  A

Multiple Choice

What is the rhyme scheme for this poem

• ABCD

• ABAB

• ABBA

• BABA

Multiple Choice

A pair (two) of rhyming lines

• Quatrain
• Couplet
• Free Verse
• Tercet

Multiple Choice

A four-lined stanza 

• Quatrain
• Couplet
• Free Verse
• Cinquain

Multiple Choice

A poem that does not have any set rules for rhyme, length of lines, or form. It does use literary devices like repetition or simile.

• Sonnet

• Narrative

• Free verse

• Kenning

Multiple Choice

A 5-line poem that is typically funny and has the rhyme scheme of AABBA

• Limerick

• Sonnet

• Haiku

• Narrative

Multiple Choice

What's the poetic form?

• couplet
• free verse
• ballad
• haiku

Multiple Choice

The chunks of text in a poem are called ________ ?

• paragraph

• stanza

• caption

• subheading

Multiple Choice

What is repetition?

• Using words to create a picture in your mind

• Words that make sounds

• Words or phrases that are repeated

• A series of words with the same starting sound

Multiple Select

What are some things that will help you better understand a poem?

SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.

• Historical context

• Information about the author

• Summarizing

• Vocabulary

• Predicting

Draw

Circle the clues in the poem that suggest a happy mood.

Draw

Highlight a line that helps establish an angry mood.