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Poetry Terms Assessment

Authored by Francesca Cortese

English

7th - 8th Grade

CCSS covered

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Poetry Terms Assessment
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What do we call a specific type of lyric poem that is always fourteen lines long and usually has a particular type of meter?

An elegy

An epic

A sonnet

A ballad

An ode

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What do we call a poem mourning the dead?

An elegy

An epic

A sonnet

A ballad

An ode

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What do we call long, lyric poems that were traditionally written to celebrate a famous person or a lofty idea?

An elegy

An epic

A sonnet

A ballad

An ode

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What do we call long narrative poems, originally passed down by word of mouth, that tell about heroes who embody the values of the culture recounting the tale?

An elegy

An epic

A sonnet

A ballad

An ode

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What do we call a song or song-like poem that tells a story and usually has a regular, steady rhythm, a simple rhyme pattern, and a refrain?

An elegy

An epic

A sonnet

A ballad

An ode

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What do we call it when a word imitates the sound that it represents?

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Imagery

Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What do we call a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"?

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Imagery

Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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