Poetry

Poetry is ------------------------

• a story written by me about myself

• a literary genre written in lines and stanzas

• a story about someone else

A poem is a ----------------------------that expresses feelings and ideas using imaginative language.

• piece of writing

• worksheet

• book

A -----------------------is the one who writes poems.

• author

• narrator

• poet

A group of lines that form a poem is called-----------------

• line

• stanza

• paragraph

To -----------------------is to explain the poem using different words to make it easy to understand.

• paraphrase

• narrate

• argue

Repetition of the first consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words is ---------------------

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• meter

In winter I get up at night

And dress by yellow candle-light.

In summer, quite the other way,

I have to go to bed by day.

What is the rhyme scheme for the above stanza?

• a a b b

• a b a b

• a b c d

The figure shown in the following stanza is ------------------------

The car danced across the icy road.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

The figure of speech shown in the following is -------------------

The world is a stage.

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

You are like a rock. The figure shown here is --------------

• simile

• metaphor

• personification