Poetry Vocabulary Quiz

The author of a poem is the _____________.

• speaker
• line
• poet
• mood

True or false? A line is one line of words in a poem.

• True
• False

Lines grouped together in a poem that look like a paragraph are . . .

• a summary.
• the main idea.
• a rhyme.
• a stanza.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

What is poetry?

• An expository text written by journalists
• A speaker
• Emotion expressed through imaginative words
• A comparison between two things

Alliteration is___________________________.

• comparing two things using "like" or "as."
• comparing two things not using "like" or "as."
• the same consonant letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words.
• giving non-human things human characteristics.

Words whose sound imitates their suggested meaning are called_______________.

• onomatopoeia
• denotation
• metaphor
• connotation

Words and phrases that create vivid sensory experience for a reader are called___________.

• imagery
• simile
• irony
• poetry

The repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work is called___________________.
(rap, map, cap, lap)

• symbol
• rhyme
• genre
• theme

Using a word or phrase more than once in a short passage is called_________________.

• connotation
• denotation
• idiom
• repetition

The close repetition of middle vowels (rain plain)

• inference
• assonance
• genre
• stanza