Poetry Quiz

Which if the of the following is NOT a characteristic of poetry?

• are typically longer than works of fiction

• are typically divided into segments called stanzas

• sometimes follow a rhythm called meter

• sometimes rhyme, but don't have to

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In poetry, a stanza is:

• the rhyme scheme

• a group of lines that form a unit, similar to a paragraph (but different)

• the meter of a poem

• the rhyme scheme

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What does poetic structure refer to?

• the theme of the poem

• the figurative language used by the poet

• the rhyme scheme only

• the organization of lines and the patterns of sound within a poem, as well as rhyme scheme and meter when applicable.

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A free verse poem is a poem that:

• has no regular meter or rhyme scheme

• has a very detailed and specific meter and rhyme scheme

• isn't technically a poem

• tells a story

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Poems ALWAYS have to rhyme, or else they aren't considered poems.

• True

• False

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A poem should be wordless   

As the flight of birds.

 

Identify the figurative language technique used here.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

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But all they want to do

is tie the poem to a chair with rope

and torture a confession out of it.

 

Identify the figurative language technique used here.

• anaphora

• personification

• simile

• oxymoron

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Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song.

 

Identify the figurative language technique used here.

• anaphora

• simile

• alliteration

• oxymoron

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only the things I didn’t do   

crackle after the blazing dies.

 

Identify the figurative language technique used here.

• oxymoron

• anaphora

• onomatopoeia

• simile

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Where there was something and suddenly isn't,   

an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.   

 

Identify the figurative language technique used here.

• allusion

• personification

• simile

• anaphora

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