Poetry Review

What is a stanza?

• a group of lines
• a short poem
• the rhyme scheme
• the way to measure a poem's rhythm

What type of poem has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern?

• Free verse
• Narrative
• Limerick
• Concrete

What is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words?

• Rhythm
• Meter
• Rhyme
• Consonance

What is the use of any element of language (sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence) more than once?

• Repetition
• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Meter

What are words that are used to imitate sounds?

• Rhyme
• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance
• Consonance

What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

• Assonance
• Alliteration
• Consonance
• Onomatopoeia

What is it called when a writer refers to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, or piece of literature?

• Allusion
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

Which of these sentences contains personification?

• Clouds were strolling through the sky.

• The sky was filled with clouds.

• Clouds form when moist air rises upwards.

Which of these sentences contains personification?

• The water in the ocean was extremely warm.

• The warm ocean waters embraced me.

• The water was warm from the sun's heat.

Which of these sentences contains personification?

• The statues, atop their pedestals, stared down at me.

• The statues were built on pedestals.

• The statues were made of bronze and marble.